Crazy Fan Theories So Logical We Bought It

Yep, fans are crazy people.

I can't think of someone who doesn't belong to a fandom, be it some culturally significant film or a book that revolutionized how kids and/or adults read. I also admit belonging to some, although for someone who spends a lot of time watching (and partly reading) it would be hard not to belong to at least two.

But some fans bring fanaticism to a whole new level, often deeper than the multi-layered dream in Inception. I am referring to the fans who don't believe in the phrase coined by Freud (or whoever really said this): Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. These people, who, rather than enjoying the material as it is, try to come up and present logical reasoning to the things that seem incomprehensible to the average viewer and/or reader to satisfy everyone's already mindblown brains. Although some are really logical that sooner or later we wouldn't be surprised when producers and authors reveal that the theory isn't a theory at all, most are just really out of this world. But hey, these theories are good for an afternoon read and something to ponder upon before sleeping.

And that's what I did the whole afternoon and what I plan to do before sleeping, all thanks to user FrancisDollarHyde on reddit who posted this: What 'fan theories' have blown your mind with their devastating logic? And I would like to share those that I've found to be really interesting.

Either it's Angelica imagining or Tommy reminiscing.

1. Everyone in Rugrats is a figment of Angelica's imagination.

Ever wondered just how Angelica could talk to the babies? Angelica is the only one who can talk to the babies because they are a figment of her imagination. She is spoilt, sad and lonely, because her Mother is constantly working and has no time for her. Her relationship with her Dad is superficial and unsubstantial, no real love is ever shown to her.

So how did it come about that Angelica would have to imagine these babies? Tommy died soon after child birth, a fact reflected by Stu never leaving the basement, inventing toys that his son will never play with. Chuckie died in the car crash along with his Mum, also reflected in the actions of his father; the crash has made him a pathetic nervous wreck most of the time.

Most interesting is Phil and Lil. There never where any twins, there was just one baby. However this baby was a still born, and Angelica never knew the sex of the still born, so she invented twins of different genders.

Sadly, Angelica never uses her imaginary friends to comfort or entertain her, instead she is mean and nasty to them. She has invented this relationship with these babies so she can vent her frustrations of being a spoilt, lonely brat who has seen much hardship from these unfortunate parents; frustrations that can't be satisfied by a typical childhood relationship with a doll, albeit a Cynthia one.

Although this theory was refuted by marvelous_molester, saying "You could spin stories like this pretty much anyway you wanted. Stu actually lived alone in his basement and imagined the lives of everyone around him because he was schizophrenic. Grandpa was in his last moments of life and he's actually Tommy, and the entire show is Grandpa's life flashing before his eyes with him himself intervening in certain points."

2.  Spongebob and everyone else in Bikini Bottom is a mutant creature.

According to Capmaster, "The existence of Spongebob and his strange friends is the result of radiation from nuclear arms testing that was performed on the Bikini Atoll in the late 40's and early 50's. Since they live under the atoll, the town is known as 'Bikini Bottom'."

So, does Bikini Atoll really exist? The answer is yes. It's somewhere in the Micronesian Islands of the Pacific Ocean and is now listed as a World Heritage Site.

Now we head to Cartoon Network-ville, where we learn that Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup were not able to save the day.

3. Samurai Jack takes place in post-apocalyptic Townsville of the Powerpuff Girls.

Spot the difference.

4. Ever wondered who's that guy by the door in each Pokemon gym and says stuff like "How's it goin' champ?" Read on and weep.

5. Inception is a dream with a running time of 2 hours and 28 minutes.

In other words, the whole fucking movie is a dream! Kyle Johnson has pretty much tackled everything in this video, from how the movie is based on a single Edith Piaf song to totems. If you can spare 43minutes of your time for this, watch as he explains the mindfuckery that is of Inception and why it should have won an Academy Award.

6 As pointed out boy UOLATSC, the Tarantino web!

It's well known that all of Tarantino's films take place in the same universe - this is established by the fact that Mr. Blonde and Vince Vega are brothers, everybody smokes Red Apple cigarettes, Mr. White worked with Alabama from True Romance, etc.

As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, 'The Bear Jew', is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance - which means that, in Tarantino's universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker. Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc.

The master weaver

You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino's movies are technically two universes - he's gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk 'Til Dawn take place in a 'movie movie universe'; that is, they're movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.)

What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk 'Til Dawn? That they're crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America's crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits - and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer.

7.  As contributed by tophatduck, Totoro is the God of Death. 

The following were taken from the blog AI Cave:

• It is saying that Totoro is in fact messenger of Death, and whoever sees him will soon die. The hospital that the sister's mother was in was based on a real hospital for terminally-ill patients.
• Later in the story the villagers find a slipper in a pond, which is in fact May's, at this point she has already drowned in the pond. Satsuki lied that the slipper wasn't Mei's out of denial. Ever since this scene, the sisters appeared to have no shadow.
• Satsuki pleaded the Totoro and the cat-bus to take her to where Mei is, while on the cat-bus, says "Nobody can see us...", this scene is Satsuki leading herself to the land of the dead (by taking the cat-bus).
• At the hospital, the mother says "I think I feel May and Satsuki smiling there in that tree..." Why don't the sisters go and see their mom if they are already there? Why do they just leave the corn there instead? It is said that the sisters were dead at that point, and the Japanese pronunciation of "corn" is similar to "kill child".
• The final scenes seem to be a happy epilogue, but they in fact happened "before" the major events in the movie.
• The movie was set in a place in Japan where there was a case of murdering of two sisters which happened in the 60s. This event took place on May 1st, while the sister's names are Satsuki (May in Japanese) and Mei (May in English). In the real life case, the younger sister was missing first and the older sister was seen to be looking for her frantically. Next day, the younger sister's body was found in the forest (stabbed to death). The older sister was in such a state of shock and kept rambling ambiguous words about seeing a "cat monster", "great big racoon monster" etc to the police. The sisters were in fact from a single-parent family (mother died of illness).

8. Jon Snow is not just some bastard of the North, according to wallaceeffect.

SPOILER WARNING: The following paragraphs contain clues regarding the true identity of Jon Snow, so I advice you to skip this number altogether if you don't want to get spoiled. Proceed with caution.

Clue: A Song of Fire and Ice. Get it?

My absolute favorite one is the Game of Thrones fan theories about Jon Snow. While in the books, it's believed by everyone that he's Eddard Stark's son by some unknown woman, the fan theory states that he's actually the son of Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen (Rhaegar's abduction of Lyanna sparked the overthrow of the Targaryens). That means that he's Daenerys's nephew, an acceptable spouse for her in Targaryen terms, and possibly the legitimate heir to the Iron Throne.

People are correctly pointing out that this would make Daenerys Jon's aunt, not his cousin as I had originally typed. D'oh. As for questions of legitimacy, Dany can't inherit by primogeniture--she's a woman. It could be argued that Aegon Targaryen would be the legitimate heir, as he is the oldest legitimate male descendant of Mad Aerys, however Jon could have a reasonable claim if he's older than Aegon, though it would be imperfect because he was born out of wedlock. But of course, in the GoT universe, legitimacy is only half your battle, and the other half is being awesome.

SuddenlySpaniards agrees with the earlier post, saying that "The whole first book, with the repeated flashback of Ned promising something to Lyanna on a "bed of blood," and the blue roses at the tourney where she's crowned queen of love and beauty along with blue roses being in her dying room... the "bed of blood" takes it too far, really. It's clear. Rhaegar doesn't seem the type to keep screwing someone for months on a literally bloody bed, even if it is rape. Servants change those dang sheets, and Rhaegar had been away marching to the Trident for weeks by the time Lyanna died in the south. The only way Lyanna could be lying in a "bed of blood" as she dies safe in a tower is a birth, and the only promise Ned would be likely to make in that context is something related to the care of her offspring. He might as well have given Jon violet eyes, for pete's sake."

9. Master Rory?

He beat Jesus to it by resurrecting more than once.

Rory has been becoming much more irrational and aggressively violent. Also, in the episode "Let's Kill Hitler" after witnessing River's regeneration and being exposed to RAW TIME ENERGY for the first time, he begins to complain of a "banging in my head", which Amy dismisses as Hitler in the closet. Also think back to "The God Complex". Rory did not have a room. He was the only character they made a point to say did not have one. And when the Doctor looked into his room all he said was "Of course it was you." and we hear the wailing of the TARDIS distress call in 4 repetitions. The only other time it has made this sound was when The Master stole it in series 3.