Fan Theory – Part III

Fan Theories And Their Twisted, Yet, Perfectly Plausible Explanations. Pt. III

contd. from Fan Theory Part II

Fan theories are like panipuri/golgappa: we know they won’t fill our stomach or ease our hunger, yet we can’t stop consuming them because they’re fun to eat. Thanks to the internet, everyone has an opinion on everything, and we can’t help take advantage of this fact. So, I have compiled a huge list of fan theories on famous movies which are sure to blow your mind. Some of them are a bit far-fetched, but, some are so spot-on that they will leave you dazed and confused.

At the end of the day, these are just theories from eager fans. So, if it makes you feel comfortable, accept the theory. If it creeps you out, just ignore it.

 

V for Vendetta – Fan Theory

1. V originally worked for Norsefire.

According to this fan theory, V is not from a minority, and he was not originally a left-wing activist. Before being sent to Larkhill and his transformation into a vigilante, V originally worked for Norsefire. That’s why he has a working replica of Fate in his hideout, and why he’s adamant his face not be known. The fear about the face thing is not symbolic. If his past connection to Norsefire was known, his revolution could be discredited as ‘just’ a vendetta. It would really harm the movement if someone saw his face and recognized him.

2. V is Rorschach from Watchmen.

Another popular theory is that V is actually Walter Kovacs a.k.a Rorschach from the graphic novel Watchmen, created by Alan Moore. At the end of the comic, Doctor Manhattan doesn’t kill Rorschach, but moves him from Antarctica to Britain and a year or two further into the future. Meanwhile, Rorschach’s diary is published, and so Veidt’s plan does not permanently prevent nuclear war. This war is the same war that wrecked the world of V. Roarschach fights against Norsefire, gets caught and sent to Larkhill for experimentation, but survives as V!

 

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air – Fan Theory

• The Prince is already dead and Bel-Air is actually Heaven.

According to a widely spread fan theory, the character of Will Smith was actually killed during the altercation described in the opening sequence in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. When his mom says “You’re movin’ with your aunty and uncle in Bel-Air” she is speaking to him in his hospital bed as his aunt and uncle are dead and he is joining them. So when he hops a plane to California and jumps in a cab, he’s actually embarking on an otherworldly journey. (God is the cabdriver). Fans insist this is also why we rarely see Will’s parents, explaining away their sporadic appearances as visits to the teen’s grave. If this theory is true and Will died, then he died in the neighbourhood he knew and loved.

 

Winnie the Pooh – Fan Theory

• Each character represents a different mental disorder.

According to the Canadian Medical Association, each Winnie the Pooh character symbolizes a certain mental disorder. Winnie the Pooh has an Eating Disorder and also has impulsivity with obsessive fixations. Piglet suffers from Generalized Anxiety Disorder which crippled his self-esteem; Owl suffers from Dyslexia and Short Term Memory Loss; Tigger has ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) which is why he can be always seen bouncing and can never stay in one place for a long period of time; Kanga has Social Anxiety Disorder which is why she is overprotective of her son; Roo suffers from Autism Spectrum Disorder and he lacks awareness of danger; Rabbit suffers from OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder); Eeyore suffers from Depressive Disorder and always has a bleak outlook on life while Christopher Robin himself suffers from Schizophrenia.

 

Fight Club – Fan Theory

1. The Narrator and Tyler Durden are actually Calvin and Hobbes.

There are so many fan theories about this movie that it’s impossible to list them all. One such theory is that the Narrator (Edward Norton) is Calvin and his imaginary friend, Tyler Durden, is actually Calvin’s imaginary friend, Hobbes the tiger. It begins with the classic comic book Calvin and Hobbes, in which Calvin creates an imaginary friend out of his stuffed animal, but by the time he reaches seventh grade, the boy is forced to face reality and “un-imagine” Hobbes. But, the pain and bitterness of it turns him into the miserable, insomnia-afflicted Narrator. Years later, Hobbes evolves into Tyler Durden, since, at the Narrator’s age, he would no longer accept an anthropomorphized jungle animal.

2. Marla Singer is an imaginary character like Tyler Durden.

One of the ways we know that Tyler isn’t real in the movie is that he is never addressed by anyone else singularly without the Narrator present. The same goes for Marla, as no one acknowledges her directly, with a few minor exceptions (the waiter in the restaurant, Project Mayhem henchmen in the tower, etc.). It can be argued that Marla is merely the female counterpart to Tyler for the Narrator — the representational mother to his projection of a father-figure — and the personification of the Narrator’s guilt and pain. Her purpose in the film is to balance and counter the animal that is Pitt’s character. If Marla is also a figment of Norton’s imagination, then this furthers the larger theory that everything we see in Fight Club is an illusion of the main character’s mind, including the ending when the buildings collapse.

3. Tyler Durden is a real person, not the Narrator’s imagination.

The whole basis of Fight Club is that Tyler isn’t real. But what if he is? One theory believes that Tyler actually exists and had planned the Narrator’s eventual breakdown from the start, manipulating his fragile mental state. When Tyler met the Narrator on the plane, he realized that he could take advantage of his loneliness and befriend him. Thus, Tyler began making rules for the Narrator, telling everyone in Project Mayhem that Norton’s character was really the mastermind and leader, when in fact they all knew it was the real, flesh-and-blood Tyler.
This led to the Narrator’s erratic and heightened behavior, so that when Pitt’s character eventually left him, the Narrator began hallucinating and imagining a version of the real Tyler at the end. Is Fight Club about a man who invents an illusion of his idealized self, or about a soap-peddling con artist [who] tricks a lonely insomniac into taking the fall as the mastermind of a terrorist organization?

 

The Dark Knight – Fan Theory

• Joker was the real hero in The Dark Knight.

I have already done an extensive piece on this; you can read the full account here. If the redditor is to be believed, the Joker was the real hero in The Dark Knight. Before the Joker came along Gotham was ruled by crime bosses, the politicians and the police had a major corruption problem and a masked vigilante was creating havoc along with the various copycat vigilantes. And the Joker actually rid Gotham of all its problems by killing off the crime bosses, eliminating the corrupt politicians and cops, getting Gordon the office of the Commissioner and forcing the masked menace, Batman, to retire for 8 years.

 

Mr. Bean – Fan Theory

• Bean is actually an alien.

According to viewers of the classic comedy, which first aired over 25 years ago, there’s a reason why Mr. Bean is so odd – he’s an alien! At the beginning of the series, we see a bright light appear on the ground and then it grows bigger and bigger until it stops and Mr. Bean falls, which is a comical take on an alien being beamed down from a spaceship.
Mr. Bean’s unusual habits are a result of his out-of-this-world origins. He also always wears the same clothes, which some argue is because he has no idea how humans are supposed to dress. He lives by himself (or with Teddy) and is constantly getting into mischief, possibly because he is trying to understand how humans act and also because he doesn’t know how to react in some situations. The other fan theory is that he was a normal human once but was abducted by aliens, tested on, and then dumped back onto Earth. This would explain his eccentric behaviour.

 

Star Wars – Fan Theory

• The Jedi were the real villains in Star Wars

The theory explains that the Jedi Knights were completely in the wrong when they go to arrest then-Chancellor Palpatine. Because when you think about it, they had no evidence that he had done anything wrong- the only thing they knew for sure was that he was a Sith. And technically, there’s nothing illegal or wrong about being a Sith, other than that it goes against the Jedi ideology. So what effectively happened when Mace Windu went to arrest Palpatine was a group of religious fanatics, with no legal authority, tried to kidnap the democratically elected leader of the galaxy for holding different religious views from them.
No one objected to the cleansing of the Jedi Temple: it was a breeding ground for radicals. Furthermore, the Jedi were clear hypocrites. Their job was to keep the peace of the galaxy and not to intervene. Yet when a group of star systems sought to leave and form their own government (note, they were not annexing people, they merely wanted to leave, hence their name “the Confederacy of Independent Systems”), the Jedi decided it was appropriate to take command of entire armies and lead them into battle because they were fighting robots; as if the lack of living combatants made their blatant disregard of their creed acceptable.
Just think about it from the perspective of a citizen of the CIS: here you have a government you want to leave sending in armies led by religious fanatics to oppress you. I would certainly be afraid of a government that did that. The Jedi’s job was to be peacekeepers- they should have acted as mediators between the CIS and the Republic, but no, they decided to go to war, because one of the leaders of the CIS, Count Dooku, was also of the opposing religious philosophy.

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While some of these stories are quite dubious, the others are way more convincing than they have any right to be.

What do you think?