18 People Share Their Favorite Movie And TV Fan Theories

When you’ve seen all your favorite shows and movies over and over again, it can get a bit stale. Then again, if you read up on some fan theories, it breathes a whole new life into what you watch. From Harry Potter to The Office, reddit users recently named some of their favorite fan theories for the movies and TV shows you love–and some of these are clever as hell.

An Accomplished Batman Villain

The Joker in The Dark Knight is a military veteran gone insane from years of war and hence is very adept at using different kinds of weapons and knives as well as tactically very sharp.

u/AltMain123

How I Met Your Mother’s Unreliable Narrator

In How I Met Your Mother, Barney and Lily aren’t terrible people. They’re just portrayed that way as a result of Ted’s biases towards them.

u/stevieflash42

The Jurassic Park DNA Dilemma

They never harvested DNA from mosquitoes. It is all a cover story and the dinosaurs are completely engineered, which explains why they look exactly how we expect them to look. John Hammond already says he is obsessed with the showmanship of carnival acts.

u/GildedLamington

The Tales of Mad Max

There is theory that the Mad Max series of movies are just stories, fables, passed down from generation to generation. Max is a folk hero of the wasteland. All of the stories begin and end the same way. Whether or not he ever really existed no one knows. He could be a conglomeration of many men or just some stranger who helped out one warrior tribe back in the day and grew into a folklore legend like Paul Bunyan or Robin Hood.

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Kevin’s Genius in The Office

In The Office (US) Kevin is actually as smart as Michael said he was. He is also the actual Office prankster and gets the whole office in on making him out to be this big dumb guy. The fact he ended his character arc by buying a bar and doing extremely well despite getting fired for making up a magic number that solves all the offices problems just doesn’t add up.

u/saturnplanetpowerrr

The Connection Between The Terminator and The Matrix

The Matrix movies are the sequels to The Terminator movies. The machines from Terminator finally win and enslave the humans. And then create The Matrix.

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The Real Reality in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

That most of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off happens in Cameron’s imagination. Ferris is a popular kid he doesn’t really know that well, so to cope with another day he’s too neurotically anxious to go to school, he imagines what it would be like to spend a day skipping school with the popular kid and his hot girlfriend.

u/SniffleBot

Scooby Doo’s Depression

The original Scooby Doo takes place in an alternate reality where the Great Depression never ended, which is why literally everywhere the gang goes is falling apart and full of professors running gold smuggling schemes.

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Crookshanks’ History in Harry Potter

Crookshanks from Harry Potter once belonged to the Potter family, but ran off when the house was destroyed by Voldemort, later to be found by the owner of the magical menagerie. This is why he could identify Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black in their animagus form.

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Harry Potter as an Allegory

In Harry Potter, Harry, Snape and Voldemort are the three brothers (the Peverells) from the story of the deathly hallows. It’s sorta a history repeating itself case. Voldemort is the first brother who desired the world’s most powerful wand, Snape is the second brother who wanted to bring back the woman he loved, and Harry was the third brother who wanted to use the invisibility cloak to lead a peaceful life. This coincidentally would make Dumbledore Death because at one point he possessed all three of the Hallows and when Harry saw him near the end of the last book, he greeted Dumbledore like an old friend, Just as the third Peverell brother did.

u/Unable_Mobile8275

The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Serial Killer

Dennis in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia blossoms into a secret serial killer over the course of the show and his first secret kill is Brian LaFevre.

u/scopeless

Andy’s Mom’s Identity in Toy Story

The theory from Toy Story that explains that Andy’s mom was Jessie’s old owner.

u/Dead_Trashcan8888

The Rock is a Bond Movie

The Rock (the movie) is actually a James Bond movie.

Aside from being played by Connery, John Mason explains that he was trained by British Intelligence. At the end of Diamonds Are Forever, Bond is on the SS Cannera, which docked in San Francisco in 1971, just one year before Mason was captured in The Rock.

u/SingleFunction220

Star Wars‘ Sad Fate for Padme

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Padme died not because she was “sad” or anything, but because she was killed by Palpatine (though Anakin/Vader did help a great deal, too)

u/maciej_telecaster

Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Cabbage Scam

The “my cabbages” guy from Avatar was intentionally putting himself in harms way for the insurance.

u/Snuffleupagus03

Hidden Replicants in Blade Runner 2049

More obscure, but the idea that Neander Wallace from Blade Runner 2049 is actually a replicant.

Spoilers below:

Wallace controls all replicant production, and was single-handedly responsible for the reverse on the ban on replicants. He is also blind and uses eye implants. The film shows that older gen replicants have ripped out the eye containing their serial numbers so they cannot be identified as not human. Wallace even utters the line “we are the Gods now.”

I like the idea that he is an old generation replicant who blinded himself to hide his origins and took over the replicant industry in order to control and ensure the continuation of his species.

u/mafternoonshyamalan

Back to the Future’s Murderous Doc

Doc Brown murdered Marty Mcfly.

When Marty comes back to 1985, he arrives just in time to see himself go back to 1955. Only that wasn’t him. That was the Marty who grew up rich. Doc must have convinced Rich Marty to help, and sent him into the distant past with no way of returning to complete the loop.

u/Sirgeeeo

The Pigs Take Over in Peppa Pig

Peppa Pig is set in an Orwell’s Animal Farm universe where the animals have risen up, killed all the humans in an apocalypse (farmageddon maybe?) and taken over their respective positions in society.

u/T5-R