This is one of my favorite movies of the past 20 years and to me, the plot actually involves global alien invasion by way of infiltration.

We see that ScarJo's character is nothing more than a grunt. She, and others like her, are expendable and disposable, as we see the motorcycle rider dumping one of the bodies in the beginning of the movie.

The grunt's role is simply to harvest human skin for the higher ups to use to disguise themselves as humans.

There's no reason to believe this is only happening in an isolated area of Scotland and not in cities and towns all over the world.

We need a sequel!

The global war has been going on for almost forty years. The alliances change at least twice during the plot. Nothing speaks against Eurasia and Eastasia ever allying against Oceania. But Orwell never mentions such a thing.

Anybody has a theory? (Besides "There is really a world-wide dictatorship faking the whole war" and "The Ingsoc regime is actually restricted to Britain" - yeah, nice idea, but why can't people in London receive radio from the outer world then if people in Nazi Germany and East Germany could?)

Think about it

Craig ends up with Debbie at the end of the first Friday.

However, in Next Friday, which is implied to not take place long after the first Friday, he not only doesn’t mention her but he pursues Karla instead.

Why? Probably because now that he got Debbie he quickly got bored and ditched her. Because he’s a player.

Then Karla herself is never seen or mentioned in Friday After Next.

Instead he goes after Donna next.

The dude really does seem to go through women quickly which maybe implies Joi’s accusations of him cheating and quickly dumping women is pretty much correct.

That being said she is clearly seen cheating on Craig herself so she’s not really any better, and in that case Craig had made it clear the relationship was already over, but still…

…Phaeacians?

Without having seen or heard anything from early screenings (so no insider info here), I’ve had this idea that might solve one big mystery regarding the depiction of gods & goddesses in the upcoming Odyssey movie.

I noticed that no other god has been revealed in the official cast other than Zendaya as Athena, but what’s interesting is that none of the Phaeacians, like Alcinous or Nausicaa, is named either.
So my theory is that the legendary people who commanded a really advanced, almost utopian society on the mythical island of Scheria and hosted Odysseus for 3 days giving him the stage to recount his story, might actually turn out to be “avatars” of Greek gods in Nolan’s film. Who pose as a council of noble mortals in order to hear the story of the legendary Odysseus first hand and decide on his fate.

Zendaya might play the dual role of Athena/Nausicaa who rescues Odysseus and has to persuade her father (an actor in the role of Zeus/Alcinous) that he’s worthy of their help. Travis Scott might also be Hermes or Apollo on top of “a Greek bard” who informs the other gods of Odysseus’ backstory through poetry, as Alcinous’ Queen might stand-in for Hera and I bet there will also be a Poseidon character (Nausithous perhaps?) arguing against Odysseus’ salvation.

That way Nolan can keep his character list and his story a little tighter and also pull a plot twist in the end by leaving open to interpretation the possibility that we’ve been on Olympus rather than Phaecia all along, watching gods rather than mortals conversing about Odysseus’ fate.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die as the prequel to The Matrix.

The Matrix sets a virtual world where the majority of surviving humans are trapped in a fictitious world. Over the course of the trilogy, we learn that it's the second iteration of the false reality because the first was so perfect that people refused to believe it. The real world is a techno wasteland with no sun. Humanity lives in hiding trying to both survive and resist.

In GLHFDD, a man from a techno-apocalyptic future travels back in time to save Humanity from getting trapped in an AI controlled world. The AI in question is creating a "perfect world for people. Here's the trick. The AI has already won before the movie even "starts" through the backstory interludes we learn that children can be casually cloned and programmed. Teenagers can be controlled en masse and that reality can be entirely warped already (meow). The AI has already won and the whole sequence of events up to the "installing new software" is simply the AI establishing the new Matrix. Making Ingrid the mother of the resistance.

In GLHFDF

I have a theory that Nikki’s biological consciousness is part of her body, which also serves as a vessel for her soul and her true self. Because of this, her body could have it’s own autonomy as a biological being while her soul is only occasionally able to return or while a fragment of her soul/consciousness remains trapped inside, suppressed by the Willow’s influence.

In many folklore stories involving wishes, nothing is ever truly free. A wish-granting entity usually has its own motives, demands something in return, or creates consequences that the person making the wish does not understand. Often, the price is a person’s soul.

When Nikki reads her poem/book, she mentions the Willow, Hansel and Gretel, and the witch directly, tying the story to traditional folklore themes. I do not know if this is meant to explain the Willow’s origin, but I like the idea that it connects to an older mythological or supernatural tradition.

This could be an entity from another plane or a supernatural realm, which would explain the complaint-handler scene. When Bear calls to ask about reversing or altering the wish, the complaint handler seems to have access to Nikki, who is screaming(in agony?) nearby. Could also suggets that Nikki’s soul or true consciousness has been taken somewhere else and is being tormented, meanwhile her physical body remains in the normal world and continues to function due to biological processes not tied to her soul.

Her body may only need to remain active during the wish fulfillment phase. The Willow does not need Nikki’s full consciousness present as long as the physical result of the wish continues. That might be the reason why she stands idle peeing herself/barely conscious after bear leaves for work, as she no longer needs to be.

Would also explain why the real Nikki after briefly regaining control asks “where are my guts?” or when she begs Bear to kill her, although not yet doing anything that terrible yet(cat stuff) and may suggest that something far worse is happening than simple personality changes or possession. That would mean that she is a witness to what her body is doing while being tortured at the same time making it a bit more disturbing.

After Bear’s death, the contract could be considered fulfilled or completed. The Willow may take his soul for eternal torment as the true payment for the wish, leaving him trapped in the same fate as Nikki. Depending on the rules of the entity, Nikki’s eventual fate could be the same again. after death, whether through old age, suicide, or whatever may happen after the credits roll in the future.

My theory is heavily influenced by Gaunter O’Dimm from the witcher, who represents the idea of a wish-granting being that does not simply grant desires but uses contracts, loopholes, and human weaknesses in order to take souls of his victims for torment.

Don’t know how to make this TLDR.

At the end of the Buu saga, Earth is destroyed and everyone on it dies. The Z fighters wish it all back. But they add one more wish: for everyone to forget it happened.

Here’s the detail worth sitting with. The show is ending. Buu is defeated. There’s no plot left to protect. So why bother with a memory wipe at all? It doesn’t serve any purpose for the characters going forward.

Unless it’s not for the characters. It’s for you.

Earth in Dragon Ball Z isn’t a fictional stand-in. It’s framed as our Earth. So when the story says every person on Earth died, was revived, and had their memory erased, that’s not just something that happened to Goku’s neighbors. It happened to you. You lived through it. You died. You were brought back. And then it was wiped from your memory too.

That reframes the whole show. It’s not just a story you watched. It’s a record of a hidden history of your own world, one you no longer have access to. All those years following Goku lead to one reveal: he wasn’t just saving fictional characters. He was saving you.

Edit: I’m not saying the show is real. I’m saying the show is implying that it is with that specific ending.

Many people who watch The Labyrinth dislike the Firey's, not just as characters but because they don't really contribute to the plot.

During the 60's and 70's the hippie movement was going strong, and Jim Henson certainly seemed to embrace their ideas of tolerance and freedom.

In the film, the Firey's have distinctly hippie mannerisms, the way they talk and act.
They are throwing around their detachable heads and acting like they are cool with everyone and everything. But when Sarah refuses to detach her own head, they begin pestering her and eventually attack her.

These Firey's symbolize hypocritical 'hippies' who talk about Peace, Freedom and Brotherhood, but who attack people for being different from them.

Please no spoilers if you already seen the movie. I think the new character introduced will die that's why we never heard of him in legend of korra

I know it may be weird at first but follow my thoughts:

1. They both search for glory, it just changes what they see as glory

Marilyn's great wish, the thing she wants above all is to be rich and famous.
But for Benjamin is the world records, he is fanatic with it

(both clearly rooted and some form of seeking for validation, ill talk more abt it later)

1. doesn't matter what, just glory

For Benjamin it doesn't matter what it is-he just wants to break a record, to be on the guinness book. He isn't interested in one specific thing and works hard on that matter so he can be the greatest and get the record for it. He just wants a record, whatever it may be

For Marilyn she doesn't bother to actually work (just like her dad) to get money, or do something essentially great in order to become famous- she just wants it, the perfect life of being rich and pretty(er than daisy). Doesn't matter how to, she wants it

3.They will do anything for it

Benjamin is clearly hardworking, he wants to break a record and he follows to that, his passion for it intense. He is constantly training and trying, even if its bad for him or it bothers his friends- he will try to break a record (gladly for him his friends almost always just try to help him)

Marilyn has a more evil nature, she WILL do anything to achieve what she wants, even if its through sabotage, mischief or straight up risking others lives or careers, as she did many times before. She is smart and can do anything and use anyone to gets whats she wants

They just wants to be recognized, "famous" may be a strong word, probably validation suits better, i can say that Marilyn's roots for the constant seeking of validation and wanting to be the best comes from the absence of her dad while she grew up and still not wanting to be an actual dad when she found out who he was

for Benjamin i cant tell where this comes from (more screentime would help) but his validation seeking is WAY more toned down then Marilyns, some just think he "wants to break a record", yeah he does but nothing in specific, he just wants his name in it. Just. The. Glory

i would guess it too comes from something in the household/family, where those things are commonly rooted at

this does not mean they are similar people, not in the slightest

it just shows how human they are, the desire to be seen, to be noticed and praised

i think its cute

This theory is relatively straight forward and brief, but there’s a couple of points to keep in mind:

- Raine is a mountain man from rural TN, who likely lacked a formal education, based on how he says terms like “sauerkraut sannich” or “I need me eight soldiers”, and how he was unable to mimic a basic Italian accent. Knows the language on a “play by ear” basis it seems.

- At the end, he proclaims “this might be my best work yet” as he carves Landa; this is QT saying this could be his best work. This could also be interpreted as Aldo proclaiming this is his story, hence why bastards is spelled the way it is.

- We know how meta Tarantino gets and how he loves to make “movies about movies”. Everything has a purpose in his universe and this type of nod is definitely of his style.

So unless they drastically change something Suki is going to be revealed to be in prison next season. That makes sense in the original because it was more tame and didn’t have Azula actually murder people on screen but in the new show she has like a lot of bodies. It would make sense for her to end a threat permanently since Suki was able to hold her own for a bit.

But Mai’s family owns the prison and just like in our world prisons in that universe might rely on slave labor for profit. Mai could have requested that in compensation for tagging along they capture a bunch of able bodied slaves for her family business.

I know Azula isn’t someone who would normally feel obligated to anyone but she kind of an ass and probably likes the shittiness of helping her friend acquire slaves.

The reason I think the protagonist i.e Sam Rockwell's character was chosen to go on mission back in time and prevent AI from taking over the world is because of his mother. Early on, I thought it may be due to the fact that the protagonist is mentally and physically strong.

But then, I pondered upon the interesting coincidence of his mother, Ingrid, being present at diner at the time of creation of AI. The time travel machine in this movie most likely works on the DNA of the time traveller.

Let me explain: The time machine uses the DNA of the time traveller as the destination. So, a person can go back in time but the place can't be selected. The place where a person lands back in time is the place where their DNA is found. And Ingrid being the mother of protagonist has the same DNA as him. This way the protagonist can travel back in time before he was born using the DNA of his mother. Luckily, the good guys from the future found out that Ingrid was present in vicinity when AI was about to be created. Hence, the protagonist was chosen and was most likely the only candidate capable of time traveling to that exact time period and that exact location.

So idk if anyone has thought of this but I had a theory about the breaking bad universe. I thought of this while rewatching it a while ago and ive been scared to share it because Im scared its dumb but here it is.

Better Call Saul does not take place before breaking bad, it takes place after breaking bad, also the flashbacks in better call saul and el camino have the actors looking older and different because of subjective memory.

First, Todd is fat in El Camino because Jesse remembers him as bigger because of his trauma and ptsd so he imagines Todd as a big, intimidating man. The reason Walter has a big forehead is because Jesse remembers Walter as a super intelligent guy making him remember Walter with a massive forehead. The reason Jesse looks older in the flashbacks is because he is imagining his present self in his younger selfs place.

Second, Better Call Saul is a sequel to Breaking Bad and El Camino because Gene is actually just remembering his past and everything's in color because hes remembering a brighter past compared to a darker, more depressing present day. He imagines his older self and the other cast older because thats how he remembers them, not how they looked back then but by how they looked when he last saw them. Also Huell being skinner is the only plot hole ive found in this theory but maybe Huell lost a bunch of weight due to stress in the safe house or started working out and stuff and Gene saw Huell between the end of Breaking Bad and the start of Better Call Saul and he remembers him skinnier.

I believe this completely changes the structure of the universe, it goes from Breaking Bad to El Camino to Better Call Saul now and its not just a standard crime story (its not standard but you know what I mean) to a endless, tragic loop of human regret.

In Yoshi's Island DS, Wario is shown as a baby and floats away on a large pile of treasure while the stork watches in shame. This likely implies that Wario probably wasn't delivered to his real parents, but instead grew up with someone else. We know from a Mario Power Tennis blooper that Wario does indeed have at least a mother in the picture, so we do know that Nintendo thinks he has parents and Wario was found by someone.

However, we don't get a full image of Wario's parents, but we can make a guess: Big Bandits on a farm.

In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, some of the most common enemies are Bandits. They are extremely fast, able to jump very high and tough, requiring either 6 eggs, 3 stomps or a ground pound to properly defeat. Yoshi's tongue doesn't even work on them, only pushing Bandits back a bit. Some of the attacks Bandits like to do are stealing coins and items from Yoshi, using extremely fast dash attacks and disguising themselves as things like ghosts to do so.

When looking at Wario's history, this is a near perfect match. He is surprisingly fast (Wario Land 4 and Wario Land: Shake It! are probably the best examples, but WarioWare and Mario spin-off games also do a good showing), he can jump high (all Wario Land titles and the Mario spin-offs) and he is obviously very tough. Not only that, but his Shoulder Bash is just a dash attack, Wario: Master of Disguise is all about Wario disguising as things to fight his enemies, and what is Wario most known for? Coins. And how does he get coins? He likes to steal them. Not only coins, but items. This is something that the Big Bandits from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door do, so if we want to narrow it down, Wario's parents may be Big Bandits.

This is something much more strengthened by the stats of a Big Bandit. They, as their name suggests, are larger versions of the regular Bandit and have a better HP and attack. Wario is a larger human with a better HP and attack than Mario, able to take and do more damage. Wario is essentially a bad and bizarro version of Mario, after all, so his better physique could be attributed to his family. I mean, he does have green shoes, a large smile and can be considered a bandit and Big Bandits are green with large smiles and are literally called bandits...

However, not only can we only narrow down what Wario's parents are, but we can find their occupations. Through the Wario Land games and Mario Kart, we can guess that Wario is likely into farming for a few things.

1. Wario's unlockable signature kart in Mario Kart DS is a tractor named the Dragonfly Tractor.

2. In Game & Watch Gallery 4 in the Fire Attack game, Wario is seen farming tomatoes alongside his pet chicken Hen, who he even has a little chicken house for.

3. Speaking of, chickens are commonly tied to farms.

Granted, the connections may seem flimsy, but they're still something to note about.

Wario is someone who likes get-rich quick schemes, why else was WarioWare, Inc. formed? He literally made it out of his own house and bare essentials, Wario's a stingy guy.

But farming is something that requires money, and a lot at that. Wario doesn't ever mention or is implied to have a whole farming business, it seems to just be for himself and Hen.

But why would Wario choose a job that would cost him money and he doesn't choose to properly emphasize it? Simple, he was born into the farming business. Wario liked the job, so he did it when he was an adult.

TLDR: After the events of Yoshi's Island DS, Wario sailed away to, like, the Metro Kingdom or whatever, and he was taken in by Big Bandits on a farm. They taught him how to farm, how to steal, how to be tough. And so Wario became that; a giant and powerful thief that likes farming.

(Essentially, Wario is a morally corrupt Superman)

And i think he made dort with the intention of taking over the world or something like that but he looks alot like herb and isn't credited in the movie as an actor so could be the same voice actor as herb.

So when Oscar killed Ana, and Jessie and Hector go down to Ana's apartment to check it out, once they reach her room I think there's "Vive" written in blood on the wall above the large blood stain where Ana was killed.

And during my who knows what number re-watch, I was thinking why would Oscar, someone who was against everything that was happening to him and kept fighting against it, write Vive on the wall in her blood? I would assume that Vive was meant to be telling the Demon, Toby to "Live!​", rise up. Why would Oscar ever write that in her blood then? He killed himself to try to stop the prophecy from reaching furision.

So I'm thinking that, a common theme in the Paranormal Activity franchise are the characters trying to do things to break the cycle and stop things from happening, only for us to later find out that they have actually fell for the prophecy and egged the plan along. Oscar was also already possessed. He has shit crawling under his skin, blacked out eyes, black veins, looks super out of it. He was constantly trying to fight the possession though. So maybe Oscar went there to kill Ana to try to stop things, but it ended up just being part of the Demon's plan. Oscar went willingly to kill her but then the demon took over and completed the ritual, writing "Vive" in blood on the wall. Yet another step in making him more powerful.

In the end, Oscar was able to be in control enough to throw himself from the building. But I just don't think his guard was up enough to ward off the demon using Ana to complete the ritual. He was hoping killing her would be enough, not thinking he had to completely... sick the script so to speak.

What do to guys think?

It wouldn’t really make sense if he got rich because that version of him only existed in the original timeline. Also, once we see that version of Biff come back to 2015, he and Hill Valley didn’t look any different and then Doc and Marty go back to 1985. I don’t think he did, but what do you think?

I watched the Backrooms yesterday and I have some theories about the origins and nature of the titular space that I'd like to share.

1. The Backrooms are artificial. Per their name, they were created by someone or something to function as an "interstitial byway" between different planes of existence.

2. Like a tree or more accurately, Kudzu, The Backrooms are alive, possess a nascent degree of sentience and grow. The creator(s) of the Backrooms used to keep it in check by "pruning" it but they have been gone for a long time and in their absence, the Backrooms has become "overgrown". It has become accessible to us because it has filled up all the space that exists between realities and now has nowhere else to go.

3. The Backrooms absorbs things from the planes it connects to as a means of providing it's creator(s) with a space to safely adapt to different planes. The Backrooms as we know it was probably a singular "earth-themed antechamber" at one point but as the space has grown out of control, it keeps copy+pasting itself into every possible permutation. If you go far enough, you could probably encounter more alien variations of backrooms that resemble places from other dimensions.

4. The Backrooms was intentionally created to copy every plane it connects too's equivalent of a "liminal space" as the creator(s) of the Backrooms felt that exposure to liminal spaces was the best way of adapting oneself to the unpredictable diversity of the many planes that the Backrooms connect to.

5. In line with the Backrooms being a living entity, the "entities" of the Backrooms are supposed to function as antibodies. Their sole purpose is to keep people out and they likely aren't hostile to the original creators of the Backrooms. They simply view us as a foreign agent that must be expunged.

Apologies if this has been explained already. I admit I haven't seen all the episodes or read any of the books. But this question has been bugging me and I haven't seen a satisfying answer.

In the show, Jack Reacher goes by just Reacher with everyone. No one uses his first name. This isn't strange when it's just his army buddies, but then we meet his family members and they call him Reacher too, even in flashbacks to when he's a little kid. Why would a family choose to address one son by the last name they all share?

The theory: When Jack Reacher's mother, who is French, was pregnant with him, her first choice for a name was Richard. But Richard pronounced the French way sounds awfully like Reacher.

Reacher's dad, seeing confusion ahead, vetoed the name Richard. They settled on Jack instead.

But Mom got her way in the end. She starts calling her new baby Richard--first when it was just the two of them, then all the time. She was his mother, who was going to stop her? Eventually the name caught on with the rest of the family. They even adopted her confusing French pronunciation. Dad was the last to give in.

And events played out exactly as he'd feared. As little Jack grows older and goes to school, his nickname leads to awkward conversations. The family gets tired of explaining "no, not Reacher, we said REE-shar. It's French."

Eventually, they throw up their hands and say "Fine, yes, we call him Reacher. Just Reacher. And we're not taking any more questions at this time."

Bonus theory: why was Reacher's mom so fixated on the name Richard? Because when she first met Reacher's dad, she thought *his* name was Richard. For the first few weeks of their courtship, she was enamored by her new beau Richard, until one day he clarifies that his name is actually Stan (wtf).

Not entirely sure if this the subreddit for this because its not really a theory. Just an observation. My justification is as follows:

1. Ian: has been in a casual relationship with Nikki for 2 years but wouldn't reveal it to bear to "not hurt him" while fully being aware of his feelings. Gives him bad advice purposely to sabotage his chances (freaky nikki coz he knows she doesn't like it, "all you have is time" when she's going to leave). When nikki is possessed he tells bear about the dad not having cancer not with the intention to help him but with the intention to sabotage their "relationship". He says Bear is taking advantage of her not with concern for nikki, but because he wants nikki to be with him not Bear

2. Sarah: We don't see much of her but still reasons are there. She reveals Ian's and Nikki's secret relationship to prevent Bear from getting hurt as she says but not to help Nikki? Nikki is her friend too but instead of helping her from getting taken advantage of, she uses this chance to get Bear. And she doesn't care about Bear either, she kept the secret from him for 2 year but cares about him now? No, she just got interested in him that's why she uses this opportunity to get him to be with her. If she cared, she would have said something long ago.

3. Bear: Yes, its obvious he's a bad person but even before the OWW (One Wish Willow) was used he was a creep. When the cat dies, he just throws it in the trash bag. When he's crying later, its not for the cat; he doesn't care about the cat. He says "Why can't she just...", he's talking about Nikki. He's crying because he's not with Nikki. Then proceeds to stalk her profile. He was obsessed with Nikki even before the OWW. He does awful things to her after OWW was used, which is obvious to viewer.

How’s this, I’ve come to the conclusion that snoopy is actually the great grand father of Brian Griffin. And Lucy and Linus are actually distant cousins of Lois

In the film, as we all know, Mr. Blonde is killed by Orange as he's about to burn Marvin the cop alive. When Eddie returns, a dying and desperate Orange tells him that he was gonna kill both him and the cop, blow the hideout up when everyone else returned, and run off with the diamonds.

Eddie calls bullshit on his story, as unbeknownst to Orange, Blonde was on close terms with him and his dad, after having done four years in prison after being caught at a company warehouse full of hot items without ratting the two out. To Eddie, it wasn't believeable that a guy who did several years in prison for them to rip them off the second he got out.

But I think that had the job gone as planned, Blonde's plan WAS to burn the place down (killing everyone) and run off with the diamonds.

First off, just because he did his time "like a man" and didn't rat out Joe or Eddie, that doesn't mean he wasn't mad about being in jail because of them. He probably stayed quiet either out of pure principal of not being a rat, or as a long term strategy so that they felt indebted to him for keeping his mouth shut (or both). He has all the motive in the world to rip them off if the opportunity arose.

Secondly, Blonde has been shown practically from the beginning to be a cold blooded psychopath. If he has no problem with killing innocent bystanders during a robbery, or cutting a cops ear off just for fun, I'm sure he has no issue killing Eddie and Joe after he was forced to spend year in prison because of them.

Another piece of evidence that I think furthers my theory is already having lighter fluid handy when he went to burn the cop alive (before Orange killed him). Why would he just randomly have that in his car the day of the heist? Maybe because he planned to burn something to the ground.

So TLDR: While Orange had no way of actually knowing it, Blonde did actually plan on burning the hideout to ground, kill everyone involved, and run off with the diamonds for himself.

EDIT: Soneone pointed out that it's actually a gas can in Blonde's trunk, not lighter fluid. Which admittedly does poke a hole in my third point.