Hannah Riley
Fan theories for TV shows and movies are wild and can totally change your perspective. Have you ever heard that it was Willy Wonka’s intention all along to kill the kids on the factory tour? Why else would there not be enough space for Augustus Gloop on the gondola?? Willy Wonka is a murderer and now I can’t see it any other way.
Someone on Reddit asked “what is a fan theory you 100% accept as true?” The answers are astounding and honestly, nearly life changing. Maybe we’re looking a little too far into something someone wrote when they were high on painkillers, but it’s definitely entertaining!
1. Donkey from Shrek is one of the kids in Pinocchio who turned into a donkey.
“The boys from Pleasure Island in Pinocchio are turned into donkeys, and it is shown that some of the donkeys’ talk/aren’t fully transformed yet. It’s pretty mindblowing.” —u/Mattmandu2
2. Every aspect of Friends completely exist only in Phoebe’s head.
“As a homeless artist, she noticed a group having a good time in a coffee shop and placed herself in their group, and gave backstories to them all, but the entire series is just stories she’s making up.”—u/DoBe21
3. Kevin Malone from The Office is actually a genius.
“If not actually a genius, he is certainly much smarter than he lets on. Occasionally he slips up and reveals himself to be something of a math genius and has to backtrack and play it off. It’s how he was able to afford ownership of the bar at the end of the series; I’m sure he made a bit just cashing in all those free drinks, but actually enough to buy a bar? I don’t believe it.”—u/Six_Foot_Dwarf
4. Each episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia starts with a date and time because they’re all testifying against each other in court.
5. In Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back, Admiral Ozzel is a rebel spy.
“Everything Ozzel does in his brief bits of screentime is to the detriment of the Empire. When the probe droid finds the rebel shield generator, Ozzel tries to dismiss it as smugglers before Piet speaks out of turn and gets Vader involved. Later, Ozzel orders the fleet out of hyperspace too quickly, giving the rebels plenty of time to activate the aforementioned shield generator that Ozzel knew about. ‘Clumsy’ or Rebel sympathizer who gave his life to give the Alliance as much time to evacuate their base as possible? I side on the latter.” —u/JustafanIV
6. Loki was controlled by the tesseract more than he let on.
“His eyes glowed multiple times, and he shed a tear when Thor tried to talk sense into him.” —u/ELW98
7. In Ratatouille, the old lady at the beginning of the movie is the food critic’s mother.
“In the flashback scene where he eats the ratatouille, you can see similarities of the house from the beginning, her face, and, I think, the bridge.”—u/Bev-Low
8. The Jetsons and the Flintstones are living at the same time in a dystopian future.
“The ‘haves’ live above the clouds, and the ‘have nots’ are stuck on a wasted Earth. The signs include that Flintstones celebrate things like Christmas and other holidays, which doesn’t make sense and the Great Gazoo alien appears in both series.”—u/lowsodiummonkey
9. James Bond’s primary purpose is to be a distraction to keep attention off the spies who actually spy.
“Villains and other spies know him because he rarely takes an alias. He makes his presence known early on and keeps messing up operations for the villains, but other spies have already infiltrated their ranks and work while Bond does as much visible damage as possible to keep the others safe.”—u/BettyVonButtpants
10. The monsters in Courage the Cowardly Dog are actually regular people.
They seem monstrous from Courage’s perspective (since he’s cowardly). Also, they live in the middle of nowhere because his owners never take him out, so that’s how he views the world.”—u/DaRoosta321
11. The “real world” in the Matrix movies is just another layer of the Matrix designed specifically to appeal to people unwilling to conform to the standard Matrix.
“Humans in this outer Matrix have confirmation of their belief that something was wrong and get to indulge in the fantasy of being a heroic freedom fighter against the faceless evil machines, thus choosing to accept this false reality. The anomaly of the One is that he’s capable of rejecting both realities, which is the reason why he had powers in the real world.”—u/Mikeavelli
12. Rory’s book in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is actually the original show.
“That explains why the characters are so different from the show vs. revival miniseries. She’s looking back at the past with rose-colored glasses.”—u/Azhreia
13. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joyce’s aneurysm occurred indirectly because of Dawn.
“Not through magic or anything directly supernatural. But she was Dawn’s mother, and therefore she would have the most artificially created memories (conception, pregnancy, life, thoughts, fears, etc.). This caused so much real physical change to her brain overnight that it created real medical problems and killed her. This is never hinted at at all in the show.”—u/QuarterNoteBandit
14. Andy from The Office hired people to play his parents because he was too embarrassed for Angela to meet his real parents.
“When Andy proposes to Angela, the people playing his parents are different actors because they are literally actors. As in, he hired them to pose as his ‘perfect parents’ because his own parents couldn’t be bothered to come. The people in the Season 8 episode ‘Garden Party’ are his real parents, who clearly are dicks.”—u/cant_Im_at_work
15. Peter Pan actually kills any lost boy who grows into adulthood.
“Captain Hook and his pirates are all lost boys who have escaped and aim to stop him.”—u/AnalCystFist
16. The secret ingredient in a Krabby Patty from SpongeBob SquarePants is crab meat.
17. And finally, Moana actually dies in the thunderstorm.
“After that, she only meets gods and mystical creatures for the rest of the movie. She still must complete her journey to return the heart of Te Fiti, and when she does, Te Fiti brings her back to life so she can go back to her tribe.”—u/Occams-Toothbrush
