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I'm talking about a fan theory, that if true doesn't drastically upend the fundamentals of the fiction it is set in.

Mine is that in the American Dad episode 'Can I Be Frank With You', that Snot's uncle is actually just another Roger persona. He appears suddenly and conveniently to pitch a bizarre scheme, he loves hanging around with teen boys and doing drugs, and the very instant that the plan has a setback he kills himself out of sight of everyone else. That's just Roger in a suit and glasses.

Edit: Ok, so, people are having trouble with the word "inconsequential".

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (21 children)

Event Horizon is a prequel to Warhammer 40k

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure the creator has said as much. He's always thought of it as existing within the 40k universe

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where we're going we won't need eyes to see

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Elsa used ice crystals at a nanoscopic scale to alter her dress during the Let It Go sequence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Isn't this kinda implied?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The Lion King is an experiment being run by the aliens from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The music is diegetic and is used to modify behavior.

We know they can implant images and subconscious commands, and that this is perceived through music. That's why they can coordinate musical numbers on the spot, and why sudden changes in behavior and attitude are accompanied by music.

In particular, the most critical character change comes when Simba wanders off to be alone, sees a vision in the sky, and the soundtrack kicks in with an extended version of the alien music from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Suddenly he's doing a 180 and running back towards his assigned role in the story.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That's fucking crazy and I absolutely lovd it! 🤣

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sisko was killed in TNG's universe. Sisko survived in DS9's universe due to the prophets saving him. The Trek universe diverged at Wolf 359.

The Dominion War has drastically different outcomes. Existential crisis in one universe where Sisko does a lot of meddling; barely mentioned in the other.

The biggest change to the cast is that Worf marries Jadzia Dax and becomes Ambassador to the Klingon Empire in one universe; in the other universe, he does a brief inconsequential stint at DS9 (without Sisko), never marries, then returns to the Enterprise E as pretty much the same character from TNG, and at some later point, he gets the Enterprise E destroyed.

The Picard timeline is set in the universe where Sisko died at Wolf 359.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chris Meloni's character in Happy is actually just Stabler. His whole backstory as a disgraced cop is essentially really him (I think they even show a picture of him right out of SVU) but he had to change his name for protection.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Mine is that in Star Trek, at least all the computers advanced enough to be used on a starship are actually sentient. At some point you have enough self aware hologram programs and rogue AIs that you should start to wonder if they’re actually anomalous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I would suggest reading some Ian Banks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

This was somewhat of a plot point in a season of Discovery.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have a theory that Mr Monk was a serial killer who framed people

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I always thought that about Jessica Fletcher. Too many people dying around that woman.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why do the people confess?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

People do false confessions to the police literally all the time. You should never talk to cops, and you should never trust a confession

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Jonathan Coulton's the future soon and the Doubleclicks' lasers and feelings talk about the same characters from two different points of view.

I have no proof of this, but the artists are friends, so there is that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He does say that "everyone has one persona they don't see through"...

Maybe that's the audience's.

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