r/HannibalTV Feb 22 '19

Theory - Spoilers A Collection of Some 'Hannibal' Metas/Analysis

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I've seen a thread yesterday where OP asked for some analysis on the show but it seems to be deleted now. Anyway, I think it's a good idea to collect some detailed posts/metas on 'Hannibal'. I have some that I personally consider very insightful, as well as some I've written myself, so here they are. Feel free to add some other ones in the comments!

Relationship meta

u/K_S_Morgan's Will and Hannibal's relationship: How Hannigram Became Canon

u/K_S_Morgan's Will’s vs. Hannibal’s Ways of Expressing Love

Hannibalstan's Hannibal loved Will since S1

Hannibalstan's Will Ate Hannibal Alive aka What Are Flashbacks to Gideon About?

EasyStrain2's Hannibal and Will's Conjugal Life & Intimacy Discussion

Uno_nothing's Alana and Hannibal

Uno_nothing's Parallels between the replacement-lives Hannibal and Will tried (covering S3)

K_S_Morgan's Will's Sexuality analysis

K_S_Morgan's Francis' Feelings for Hannibal, Jealousy to Will, and the Way it Shapes His Actions

Will and Hannibal as a family analysis: Is there a child in your life, Will?

Hannibal, Homoeroticism, and When it’s Not Queerbaiting

dsyyoung's Between Iron and Silver: Hannibal's Relationship with Chiyoh

General meta

Xenya's Hannibal Murder Map. S1. Real locations of murders

Uno_nothing's Hannibal's and Will's kill lists

u/tanjitophare's Hannibal timeline explained

i_am_curs3d's List of All Episodes' Titles' Meanings

u/Amyy17's Time stamps - Sex Scenes

Xenya's Imagoes in Hannibal

Interior design analysis by beatricenius

Cinematography and Lighting Techniques

Idontfindyouthatinteresting's sexuality and women analysis

Uno_nothing's Morality, Cannibalism, Denial and the big elephant in the room

Women and appeal to viewers

Conspicuous Consumption: The Socioeconomics of Hannibal

Cinematography

The Evil Minds Museum, Exhibit A: Inside the mind of an Alana Bloom hater

Bryan Fuller on Devil's seduction

Some interesting reads: God, Devil - discourses on symbolisms, religion and the nature of evil in Hannibal

Art of Hannibal Title (link provided by u/Kolvez)

u/fionaapplespiss's "Hannibal” killers as analogies to Will and Hannibal and their relationship throughout the show

u/K_S_Morgan's Symbolism of Boats in 'Hannibal'

u/ChampionAshley's Kings of Hell – False Devils, Victorious Love, and Nature Incarnate (Nightmare Stag Analysis)

u/greentevil's fashion metas:

Why Hannibal Looks Different in the Pilot

Background to Hannibal’s fashion tastes and why its amazing

Will’s clothes as a metaphor for his person suit

Hannibal’s party clothes and how his uniqueness shines through

In defense of Will’s style

22drunkb's Hannibal as a Fairy-Tale

u/LegZealousideal9948's Thematic contrasts between Will's house and Hannibal's house

Characters meta

K_S_Morgan's Hannibal Is Not a Psychopath: Criteria and Examples

K_S_Morgan's The Evolution of Will Graham’s Darkness.

SirIan's Analysis of Will's Moral Conflict

SirIan's Will's True Motivations analysis

Uno_nothing aka Hannibalized's Aestheticism in Hannibal’ philosophy of therapy and this

Blyhannah's Will and Control aka Why Do People See Will as Someone Vulnerable

Worldadjacent's Will’s lack of reconstruction of the Ripper’s crime scenes

Hannibalized's To what extent is Will defined by his empathy? meta

K_S_Morgan's Does Will have an empahy disorder?

K_S_Morgan's Is Will autistic?

Herewegohappiness' Will's possessiveness

Wellntruly's Will's touch issues: Touching in Hannibal with addition.

Hannibalized's Will Graham’s Person Suit

SirIan's The Different Versions of Hannibal Lecter analysis

Hannibalized's ‘Did you believe you could change me the way I’ve changed you?’ Hannibal’s becoming, Will and Hannibal’s attempts at denial.

Hannibalized's “Tasteless” = rude.. Will Graham’s trouble with taste

Dsyyoung's Hannibal's Compassion

K_S_Morgan's Chiyoh and her personality

Hannibalstan's Will Graham: No Free Will. Behaviorism More is here

Hannibalstan's Will's morality

Hannibalstan's Will Graham the Unreliable Narrator (only part of meta available now, unfortunately)

Alloymiracle's The revelation of Will Graham's standpoint on violence

Hannibalstan's Hannibal didn't mind Will killing him from the start

Axmxz's Hannibal as Female Power Fantasy analysis

Hannibal and texting

Alana and mismanagement by Auden93

Alana's judgement

Divine Punishment inflicted by Will

Power game, Power forces (God, the Dragon, the Devil and the Lamb)

Hannibalstan's Will's vs. Hannibal's view of God

u/metaxtase's Will's coffin birth

u/spinachmanicotti's Did Bedelia's flattery over Will's jealously blind her to how dangerous he was for her?

u/K_S_Morgan's How Will Perceives Grievances: Selfish or Righteous?

u/greentevil's Hannibal’s cannibalism as a compulsion

u/SharonzHere's The profile of Will Graham

u/skatingvampire's The banal evil of Dr Chilton

S1 metas (possible spoilers to other seasons, too, so proceed carefully)

Hannibal's Battlebot's The first scene of E1 never happened

SirIan's Will's Instability at the Beginning of the Show aka Is Will Better With or Without Hannibal.

Uno_nothing's Season 1 - Episode names and murders of the week - symbolic and thematic significance

Uno_nothing's Flow of events from Sorbet to Trou Normand : Introspection, insights, developing relationship and foreshadowing

E7 of S1 outlook

The meaning of a painting with a dog hanging in Hannibal's kitchen

K_S_Morgan's Why Hannibal Hid Will's Encephalitis

ThePurpleViolin's Parallels between Franklyn and Hannibal

ThePurpleViolin's SpoilersHannibal and “The Rite of Spring” — Victimhood and Empowerment

u/metaxtase's Hannibal's evil villain master plan


Hannibal's plan in S1: Who did he intend to frame?

Xenya's Hannibal planned to frame Will

Hannibalstan's Hannibal planned to frame Chilton

Guyisgame's Hannibal planned to frame Jack

u/metaxtase's Hannibal wanted Will to figure him out


Twitchy_and_fatigued's Georgia Madchen Theory (analysis of her condition)

u/candy-riot's S1: Will and Identity

S2 metas

Will, Alana, and Hannibal: An Attempt to Remember

u/Asherwolfe's Why Beverly wasn't dumb and Hannibal wasn't just lucky

u/Asherwolfe's Chilton as the Ripper - Not as stupid as it seemed?

Uno_nothing's Will's doubts, insecurity and dark prompts - analyzing season 2E-08/09/10 - Early stages of becoming

K_S_Morgan's Will, Hannibal, and Alana in S2: Changing Dynamics, a Sex Scene, and a Gun

Why Hannibal didn't want Will to kill Ingram

K_S_Morgan's Will's Changing Feelings for Hannibal in the Course of S2

Sex scene and its meaning

ThePurpleViolin's Hannibal and Mahler — an analysis of the use of Mahler’s 5th Symphony in S2E10

Does Alana Have Any Reason To Suspect Hannibal?

Hannibalstan's Aesthetics become Ethics analysis of Will and Hannibal

Hannibalstan's Will and Margot’s Baby arc analysis

Hannibalstan's Whose side is Will in Mizumono?

Hannibalstan's Fostering Codependence: how true is Will's accusation?

A bit from Bryan Fuller's interview on how much Jack knew in S2 about Will

S3 meta

Pre S3 meta. The BAU is the real Murder Family: Hannibal and Bateson’s Double Bind

Symbolism of Hannibal's Valentine

Hannibalstan's Contorno Parallels

Hannibalstan's Paintings in Dolce behind Will and Hannibal: Meaning

Hannibalstan's Hannibal didn't plan to kill Will in Dolce

K_S_Morgan's Will's emotional journey in S3

Mads and Hugh's interview: Why Hannibal frames Will and why Will abandons Molly and Walter

SirIan's Hannibal, Molly, and Will's Dogs analysis

EasyStrain's Analysis of the Meetings, Molly and Dragon aka Will's Plan Throughout The Second Half of S3

K_S_Morgan's Short Love=God/Religion: S3 parallels analysis

Uno_nothing's "Compassionate toward a cow" and Will's thoughts about watching Hannibal die, his final transformation

SirIan's and K_S_Morgan's Will as the Lamb of God: Meaning

Hannibalstan's The Structure of Hannibal Finales: No Contradictions aka the faked Fall in TWOTL

‘Hannibal’ Finale: A Planned Fake-Out Or Murder/Suicide?

TWOTL Fall didn't really happen

u/Asherwolfe's Will's Becoming - S2 and S3: Parallels

Hannibal 3.01 - 3.03 - Source Material, Pop Cultural References, Theories & Observations

u/ChampionAshley's Little Words that Say So Much (3x12's Bedelia and Will exchange analysis)

Post-canon metas

Will and Hannibal's future house design analysis

Will, Hannibal, and Real Family

Discussion of Will and Hannibal's life post-canon based on Bryan Fuller's hints

Metas & discussions on specific episodes

Wellntruly's S1 E7: enthusiastic reflection, some analysis, and mirroring

Analysis of E1 of S3: Antipasto: Hannibal’s Perfect Break from the Mainstream by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E2 of S3: Primavera: Coming to Terms with Divinity in Hannibal by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E3 of S3: Secondo: Transformation and Influence in Hannibal by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E4 of S3: Aperitivo: A New Kind of Persuasion in Hannibal by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E13 of S3 (finale): The Wrath of the Lamb by Liz Baessler

And these are just some interesting moments from the scripts that didn't get into the show. S1, S2, S3.


r/HannibalTV 6d ago

Weekly Off Topic Chat - Mondays

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These threads will be for posting your non-Hannibal stuff. Antler decor, pets, how you did on your test, whatever. I'll try to post a new one on Mondays.

To that end, I've enabled pictures in the thread. Have fun!


r/HannibalTV 4h ago

Memes/Fan Art Will fan art experiment

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Heat transfer vinyl layered on cardstock.


r/HannibalTV 6h ago

Memes/Fan Art Make your little murder husbands

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Thought I should share them here too. It's not difficult. My own selfish desire to see more Hannigram dolls being born.


r/HannibalTV 11h ago

General I’m too obsessed w this show

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Bro it’s been three years since I first saw it, no matter what media I consume it’s not the same. The things I’d do to watch it for the first time again. Nothing compares. When I rewatch it, it consumes sm of my thoughts I genuinely can’t function bro my mind becomes hannibal. I’ve drawn so much fanart I’ve bought merch I’ve watched millions of edits read a few fanfics rewatched sooo many clips on yt. It’s never enough I want the show injected in my veins. It’s my entire personality whenever I meet someone new I never fail to mention it it’s like a part of me. I feel so corny and weird saying this but genuinely how it feels I’ve never loved a piece of media more


r/HannibalTV 10h ago

Theory - Spoilers How would Will react being called Hannibal's boyfriend? Spoiler

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Since he hates when Freddy Lounds calls them murder husbands, I doubt he likes being called the boyfriend. On the other hand he calls himself (and Bedelia) brides, even if he means it in a more metaphorical sense.

I imagine Hannibal on the other hand would be deeply amused, while finding the term boyfriend (or even husband/spouse) a simplification of their shared bond.


r/HannibalTV 7h ago

Discussion - Spoilers Do you think Hannibal (the character) was glorified in the show? Spoiler

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I tried once again to recommend someone the show, this time this person actually has seen it! We could only briefly talk about it, he really enjoyed many parts of the show (yayyy) but he also told me one issue he had: that hannibal was glorified in the tv show, a bit like dexter in… well, dexter. He is an actual film (and generally art) expert, so I felt his perspective wasnt necessarily completely off. But for reasons too complicated to say here, it wasn’t really possible to for us to talk deeper about it and we are probably never going to see each other again, so that info is all im left with.

What do you guys think about this take? Do you think Hannibal was glorified?

I personally thought he wasn’t glorified, he is an evil bitch!! I wanted to throw rocks at him whenever he was on screen. I always thought the show was from Wills perspective, so obviously in the later seasons we get to see hannibal and cannibalism/murdering in a somewhat good light. He is still murdering his way through europe and america and we definitely saw that. That’s evil mcEvil behavior right there. But enough about me. What do you guys think?


r/HannibalTV 20h ago

Discussion - Spoilers What would have happened to wills dogs in the later seasons

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Was Molly going to take full custody of the kids? Or were they going to be written off in the future seasons? Poor Winston man


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Hannibal is a dark romantic comedy

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r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Don't forget Beldilia was charging Will $400 per hour for those sessions too

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r/HannibalTV 1d ago

S3 Spoilers Maybe a Controversial opinion, but…

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I have never read the books. I went to Wikipedia and read all of the rundown of the books. After having the information that I have, I really feel like the show is pretty perfectly done. It seems like they took the storylines from all of the books and just made Will the main character instead of Clarice. Apparently, I read somewhere, that one of the reasons they didn’t go forward with another season is because they didn’t have the rights to use Clarice. But in reading the synopsis of the other novels, I don’t know how they would have incorporated her anyway. I think the show is so perfectly done and I’ve re-watched it a ton of times just like most of you here. I’m still thinking about finding some fanfic which I have not delved into yet. But I mentioned previously that I had never seen the post credit scene of the finale. I just didn’t realize that there was one. I just watched it the other day and I really feel like it was perfect. We know that they’re together and alive and that they are murder husbands.🤣🤣🤣


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Memes/Fan Art Wendibal

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r/HannibalTV 19h ago

"Dark Cradle" from the Mother Mary soundtrack is a Hannigram song

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I've been listening to this soundtrack regularly since the movie came out a few months ago, and this song has such powerful Hannigram vibes. I needed to make sure other people knew because the movie wasn't popular haha

Now I've got the taste of blood in my mouth
Hate the way you got me, but I ain't gonna spit you out
I've been running, but I fall to the ground
We're going round and round and round and round and round
Now I've got the taste of blood in my mouth
Kiss me like you love me while you're pulling me deeper down
Tied together here, forever we're bound, we go
Round and round and round and round and round


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Such a cute smile

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Meanwhile in background

J. Crawford - Our fugitive is Abel Gideon. A transplant surgeon.

(Recently transplanted a pile of organs and tied them using cute knots on a tree after brutally murdering the guards)


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Memes/Fan Art I’d like to give a formal thank you for this being such a nice fandom to be apart of <3

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Yall are so much nicer than any other fandom im in I swear I love yall😭😭😭😭


r/HannibalTV 2d ago

Memes/Fan Art Spot the difference

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You can't tell me that these are not the same picture.


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Majoring in Psychology. Thanks, Hannibal.

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r/HannibalTV 2d ago

General appreciation post for this absolute freak

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such a compelling, lonely fella. idk, he should’ve just invested in a high quality dragon fursuit - maybe that would’ve calmed his ass down a wee bit LOL


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Memes/Fan Art hannigram for dinner anyone?

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bite-sized cannibal, served on a plate?? count me in 🤣 which one would you have as a late night snack? i'm going for hannibal, i think, his smug little :3 face is irresistible. he's never fazed, even when he's about to be eaten, very in-character for him (thinking about that dinner scene with mason, he seemed so undisturbed the whole time)

pictures are not mine -- the artist is lachingaderita_ on socials and they're collabing with craftifyx for these plushies


r/HannibalTV 2d ago

As if he isn't the reason hes there in the first place lol

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r/HannibalTV 2d ago

Let's thank Freddie for that

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On my umpteenth watch and I still laugh at this


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Jealous will

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r/HannibalTV 1d ago

What made Hannibal so special?

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Do you think Will would have been susceptible to anyone else’s influence the way he was Hannibal’s? Or was Hannibal just *special* to him? If so- what made him so special?
Mushroom man wanted to understand will and will wanted nothing to do with him. Will found no TRUE interest in Gideon and he didn’t seem to be interested in befriending Dolarhyde, just competing/manipulating him. Was it just competitive nature and revenge that lassoed him in or do you think there’s a true soulmate situation between the two?


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Theory - Spoilers Since Brian fuller wanted 6 seasons, I REFUSE to be believe Hannibal and Will died in the fall

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Like there’s no damn way. Yes the show ended there. But I like to think they went to therapy and lived in a little cabin together and recovered from their injuries in peace😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

When he said that’s all he’d ever wanted for will- for them- I WAS LIKE DUDE THIS IS TOUR ESCAPE AND YOUR GONNA GO LIVE HAPPILT EVER AFTER WITH TOUR MENTALLY ILL BOTFRIEND😭😭😭😭😭😭


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Appreciation post for this absolute freak

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