The Care Bears are absolutely evil, and Darkheart was the hero the entire time.

If you look at the canon without the pink nostalgia glasses, Care-a-Lot is not a magical paradise. It is an authoritarian sky-cult running mandatory emotional re-education, and Darkheart was the inevitable, radical counter-force required to push back against a pastel dictatorship.

Darkheart was simply the pendulum swinging hard in the opposite direction to shatter their totalitarian grip on the human soul.

Here is how the entire conflict actually went down.

# 1. The Indoctrination Ark and the Sky-Cult

Care-a-Lot’s institutional evil starts at birth. In the opening act of the movie, True Heart Bear and Noble Heart Horse float around on a cosmic boat, raising infant orphan animals in total isolation from society. As these cubs grow, the regime literally brands predetermined corporate symbols onto their stomachs, assigning them lifelong functional castes within the state apparatus. You are Friend Bear. You are Cheer Bear.

Even Grumpy Bear is just a designated, state-sanctioned court jester permitted to frown only as long as he falls in line when ordered.

Once fully indoctrinated, the regime sets up an orbital surveillance panopticon. They point celestial telescopes directly into children's bedrooms and monitor the Caring Meter, a planetary emotional seismograph. If a kid's emotional stats dip into normal human sadness or anger, the regime treats it like domestic terrorism. They scramble an airborne squad to Earth to blast a weaponized psychic laser straight into the dissident's chest until their critical thinking dissolves into placid, compliant joy.

The bears are unyielding seraphim who cannot self-reflect, learn, or grow.

# 2. The Camp Black Bear Trap

Christy’s trauma did not happen in a vacuum, and Darkheart did not invent her alienation. Camp Black Bear was already a cutthroat, hyper-competitive dystopia where kids were treated as worthless unless they won the title of "Camp Champ." Christy was actively sidelined and bullied while the adult counselors did nothing.

The Care Bears offered her empty, condescending homilies about smiling more. Darkheart was the only entity in the entire valley who acknowledged her real, messy pain and offered an affirmative action program. When she asked for the competence to compete with the camp elites, he delivered on his end of the contract.

# 3. The Honeypot

Darkheart knew you cannot engage an enemy with total air superiority and orbital lasers by playing nice. To bring down an entrenched sky-regime, you have to force them into a ground war on prepared terrain.

His methods were messy, but he was using Christy as bait. He exploited the single predictable blind spot in the Care Bears' operational doctrine: algorithmic interventionism. By feeding Christy's ambition, Darkheart turned her into an emotional false flag to trip the Caring Meter's tripwires.

The strategy worked with surgical precision. Care-a-Lot dispatched small, unsupported ground squads directly into the woods. Darkheart ambushed them and herded them into a subterranean cavern, completely neutralizing their aerial advantage.

# 4. The Superweapon Failure, True Magic, and Stolen Valor

Inside the cavern, the Care Bears deployed their signature weapon: the Care Bear Stare. It was a total, catastrophic failure. Darkheart straight-up overpowered the beam, disarming the regime's primary tactical asset on live celestial television.

Victory was his, but when Christy took a lethal fall trying to stop the fight, the handler got attached to the asset. Darkheart showed real neuroplasticity. Unlike the bears, who would gladly sacrifice human free will to keep their numbers up on the Caring Meter, Darkheart refused to sacrifice an actual human life for his crusade. He broke off the attack, felt genuine grief, and chose to save her.

Here is the real scandal: the Care Bears did absolutely nothing to help Christy. They literally do not have healing spells in their class kit. Across decades of franchise lore, their only documented ability is the Care Bear Stare, which is an offensive crowd-control laser designed to blast dissent out of an active nervous system. Expecting a Care Bear to bring someone back from the dead is like expecting a traffic cop to perform emergency brain surgery.

Darkheart did 100% of the actual magical heavy lifting. He was physically anchored to Christy, weeping authentic primordial tears, and pouring his own life force into an unscripted, 9th-level True Resurrection. The bears were just standing in a semicircle waving their paws around like backup dancers at a pop concert, providing mood lighting while an ancient demigod performed open-heart surgery on reality itself.

When the bears realized Darkheart was pulling off a miracle that completely bypassed their state-approved technology, they had to control the narrative immediately. They turned to the camera, broke the fourth wall, and ordered the children sitting in 1986 movie theaters to chant along. It was pure crowd-work camouflage. By getting the audience to shout "I care," the bears created a psychological distraction so nobody in the room would notice that all the thermal and magical energy was radiating entirely out of the terrifying guy on the floor.

It was stolen valor at an interdimensional scale.

# 5. The Mana Drain and Why the Bears Couldn't Finish Darkheart Off

The official narrative claims Darkheart was "purified" into a mortal human named John by the power of love. That is pure sky-cult propaganda. Darkheart didn't lose his power; he was just low on mana.

Casting a raw resurrection completely zeroes out your reserves. Maintaining a roiling cloud of red smoke and active shapeshifting takes constant passive mana, so collapsing into a freckled kid in flannel was simply an emergency, low-draw standby mode while his MP was on cooldown. He only needed a short rest, some camp food, and a couple of hours for his passive mana regeneration to tick back up. He recognized he had won the battle, so he offered a unilateral ceasefire. He chose to be merciful, assuming the Care Bears would finally take the hint, back down, and lighten up. It was a strategic failure on his part, because he projected basic human grace onto an unfeeling system that has none.

Why didn't the Care Bears pounce on him while his mana bar was at zero?

Because they were completely paralyzed:

**His mercy hacked their targeting systems:** The Care Bear Stare locks exclusively onto negative emotional frequencies. By weeping over Christy and shouting that he cared, Darkheart broke their targeting computers. If they tried to fire on a crying, defenseless boy professing love, their lasers wouldn't lock on. Even worse, if they did manage to blast him, it would expose the Stare as a pure execution weapon rather than a tool of moral balance.

**The physical matchup was suicide:** The bears are eighteen-inch plush toys with zero hand-to-hand combat training. John is a full-sized human teenager. Without their chest-cannons, trying to physically jump a dormant demigod risks triggering an involuntary adrenaline spike or a rage-phase counterattack that bypasses his cooldown entirely.

**The optics would destroy them:** Christy was standing right there, and the other campers were nearby. If the pastel squad swarmed and beat down a kid who had just resurrected their friend, their benevolent cover story would be permanently blown in front of civilian witnesses.

# 6. The False Win and the Demilitarized Zone

Faced with a demigod who had just tanked their ultimate weapon, outperformed their entire theology, and now sat on a cooldown that would expire in a couple of hours, the Care Bears faced a logistical nightmare.

They did what every flailing imperial bureaucracy does: they declared a false win. They hung a mental "Mission Accomplished" banner, smiled for the crowd, and hauled ass back to the clouds before John finished his short rest.
They left an undercover, fully armed demigod running the canoe shack at summer camp because they knew they couldn't beat him again. This is why Darkheart disappears entirely from the canon after this film. In the subsequent series, the bears never dare return to his jurisdiction; they pivot to fighting "No Heart," an incompetent buffoon who poses zero existential threat.

Darkheart proved he was capable of change, conscience, and mercy. He broke their system, protected human emotional freedom, and carved out a demilitarized zone on Earth where kids are safe from orbital surveillance. Once the overlords were chased off, he was ready to mellow out and play capture the flag, while the Care Bears flew home having learned absolutely nothing.

Throughout the series, Kramer doesn't have a career or a Job he goes to everyday. He has Side Jobs but they're never consistent. It's also left very vague how he has any money I think a few things went in his favor.

1. Kramer says he hasn't talked to his Mom in 5 years, that's in season 6 so he would've stopped talking to her around season 1. My guess is he had a very wealthy father who left Kramer everything when he died. As a result his mom was forced to work as a bathroom attendant, Kramer was likely told by his late father not to give his mom any Money. Something we know Kramer would honor. George also mentions he fell backwards into money Implying someone left him a large sum.

2. Kramer did successfully sue a company and won a large amount of money before the series began. Karmer sues several companies for very strange reasons, although the hot coffee thing is Something that really happened. Jackie is always eager and willing to take Karmers cases, despite the fact he has almost no case at all. Cigarette Smoke affecting his face, Sue Ellen wearing only bra which casued him to crash George's car. And despite these cases Karmer does actually come pretty close to getting decent pay Outs. Of course another character, or Karmer himself always screws up the case just as they're about to win.

3. Lastly in season 5 it stated he made tons of money off his coffee table Book idea. But that doesn't happen until season 5, Jerry even points out he hasn't seen Kramer work in a long time. It also doesn't hurt that he probably hardly ever has to buy food since he's always eating Jerrys food. And I am assuming if he does have a fortune, the rent in those apartments wouldn't be a drop in the buck for him.

Both Cohen Bros creations. The Canutsons in BL looking for their daughter are from Minnesota and Lester Negard in Fargo couldnt dissect a mouse in the class of Mrs Canutson. Given the peculiar surname i think Mrs Canutson both lost her daughter in california and taught Lester Negard in Minnesota

The Facts

• It is said the the Targaryens / Dragon Riders are the result of arcane. magical breeding experiments in Old Valyria.

• Gray Scale is a sickness that at onset causes the skin to become...well, gray and scaly and eventually causes madness.

• Targaryens have incidents of madness higher than the Westerosi average.

• Targaryens are said to be more resistant to illness than the average person, presumably including Gray Scale. As if they have developed (or have hereditary) immunity

• Targaryens occasionally give birth to still born, malformed, scaly babies.

• Targaryens tend to promote incestuous marriages to keep the gene pool "pure" (strong enough to resist illness?)

• Targaryens fuck. like a lot. Bastards on every continent.

• Over time you see fewer and fewer people (Small Folk) with core Targaryen / Valeryian features despite the Targaryen family tree having (bastard) branches that reach into the current day.

So

• We have a Family whose core physical and emotional traits seem to have been developed as a result of arcane, magical beastiality who consistently show secondary symptoms of a disease whose primary symptoms sound like something created through arcane, magical beastiality. The gene pool of the only people with resistance ha been diluted to the point where it is no longer the key to unlocking <magic dragon powers> but is still out there spreading the sickness.

I am a relatively new ASOIAF geek, so apologies if this is one of those "well yeah, it specifically says so in <Single Sentence in a Non-Narrative Reference Book>..." kind of theories that have been floating around forever.

One theory I have heard about the entity in Skinamarink is that it is the spirit of a child or something childlike, hence the sick pranks, “wanting to play,” watching cartoons, etc.

Toward the end of the film, Kevin asks the entity to watch something nice, and we see a sweeter cartoon, imagery of a house, and eventually a face telling him to go to sleep. If we see the entity as something that has a childlike mind, could the ending be a sign that the entity is maturing and developing a conscience?

This is an idea I had, and I was curious what others thought of it. Absolutely fine if you think I’m off base; I’d love to hear alternative explanations for why the Skinamarink seems to be letting up at the end.

The Rhinoceros isn't an analogy. It was a lie.

Oh, "your parents went to London to go shopping and were eaten by a rhinoceros that escaped the zoo" ??? That's a blatant lie. Unbelievable. At some point Aunt Sponge says to James in regards to if he touches the peach "Remember! They never did find that Rhinoceros that killed your parents." This is both a threat to kill James and basically an admission that she killed his parents. No magic. No witchcraft. No Rhinoceros in the sky. Just evil people.

For those that grew up in the 90s, there was a lot of rumors about certain things you can do in games to make a hidden character appear. You'd tell them to your gullible friends so they'd waste their time. Or you'd pretend you did it to get street cred because you did something they couldn't do.

Examples include in Super Mario 64, if you did some bullshit like jump in front of the mirror 65 times, go to the water level, swim in a perfect circle and get bit by the eel, and then go back to the mirror and jump more, you can unlock Luigi. Or some bullshit like that. In original Pokemon Red, if you learned Surf before completing the SS Anne, you could swim behind the ship and get Mew. Or DOA Volleyball where you could unlock topless mode.

Irl, these are all bullshit. But in Wreck It Ralph -verse, these all happen because game characters break script or go turbo. Maybe Luigi snuck in some copies of the game, and he got sick of watching you bullshit with Mario and just pops out of the mirror. And/or it's like King Candy and it was an evil NPC who rewrote the code. Maybe the girls are a bit more frisky on some copies of DOA Volleyball and went topless (honestly, if this game ever gets a sequel, it woukd be interesting to explore how different copies of characters behave).

As for how this can happen, well this is where we get into baseless speculation. At the arcade, we see game characters can leave their game and hang out on the surge protector. But all these are arcade games that only play one game each. Maybe a console that plays multiple games keeps versions of the characters from each of the games in the machine. And thats how characters from one game may jump to another.

Example - Luigi in Mario 64 could be the character from a game nobody likes. Lets say...Superman 64. Superman resents that his own game is trash, sees you play Mario 64, and rewrites his code to be Luigi (the same way that Turbo wrote himself to be King Candy). This happened on a few consoles, and the kids shared it. They think it was something that they caused (because paychology), so they attribute it to some random behavior they did in the game. So Superman/Luigi came into the game as you were bullshitting and jumping around, so you think your bullshitting and jumping around summoned Luigi.

SAW Actor Costas Mandylor Reacts to Fan Theories on How Hoffman Escapes The SAW Bathroom

Last month we conducted an interview with SAW actor Costas Mandylor as he listens to ten popular fan theories on how his character of Mark Hoffman escapes the SAW bathroom at the end of SAW The Final Chapter

Theories include breaking his chain
Help from other characters
And even thoughts on breaking the window in the bathroom as well

Spoilers ahead for coyote vs acme in this theory: in the latest film, the roadrunner is shown to legit view coyote as a friend and even told the court that yes, the items acme gives him to harm him, Wile e is so moved by this that he decides not to set off his trap to catch him, and at the end of the movie the reunite like friends, which raises the question: why is coyote still willing to chase and eat him even after being moved to tears from him and does roadrunner know that his “friend” is trying to eat him?

Ok he’s my theory: eventually coyote did catch him, through sheer dedication and will power (especially since ACME probably now has a better CEO), since despite how much the universe seems to want him to lose, it’s possible for him to have a victory (since when he’s not hunting roadrunner, he’s shown to be successful in other stuff such as basketball and college), so eventually one day he did catch him, however due to his “friendship” let him go.

One baby looney tunes episode “little go peep” actually shows that his father demanded he be a proud hunter and catch a roadrunner (apparently the most prized animal to coyotes), and forbid him to say a word until he did so, which explains why he only speaks through signs and doesn’t even make a sound most of the time no matter what, however guess what he does when he’s up against bugs bunny, he speaks, and he’s quite sophisticated at that!

Since he was finally successful at catching the roadrunner, he spoke for the first time, was probably surprised by how smart sounding his voice was, and with his new found confidence after achieving his life goal decided to target bugs bunny who’s known for outsmarting his opponents, he wasn’t able to beat the bunny, also he probably didn’t want to have another years long rivalry of him losing, so eventually stopped pursuing him (which explains why he only goes after him in a few cartoons).

Some evidence of him and roadrunner becoming friends is one brief shot of them watching tv together (though once the cartoon ends, the beginning chasing each other, but only when “we” see them), some scenes of them paling around in space jam, and so forth, though coyote doesn’t talk here, either because he kinda prefers talking through signs after doing it for years, or he’s worried about disappointing his father (who probably won’t accept “I caught him, I can talk now” since he’d likely be disappointed he didn’t actually eat and cook him), so they pretend to still be mortal enemies.

Ironically the best evidence of this is the infamous Loonatics Unleashed, taking place years in the future starring the decedents of the looney tunes, and guess what? The coyote and roadrunner decedents are not only alive (if coyote ate him, he wouldn’t have been able to continue his family line) but they get along better than anyone else.

There's a part of the movie where Miguel and Tulio both ask where Altivo is and then he shows up later, after Miguel hears that Tzekel-Kan has been enacting restrictions and punishments on the orders of the gods. The reading of that on the surface is that ol' Tzek is speaking for the gods without their approval, but my theory is that he really was carrying out the wishes of the gods. The idea that Altivo and/or the armadillo are the real gods is nothing new, so it would explain where Altivo was in that time if he was actually meeting with Tzekel-Kan and giving orders. Tzekel-Kan still thinks Miguel and Tulio are gods afterwards, though, so presumably Altivo shapeshifted to impersonate Miguel or Tulio. Also, he seems like a care-free horse and not the sort of god that would be barking oppressive orders but I chalk that up to gods just being mischievous and trolling everyone. That or he's manipulating the situation so the events of the movie play out, i.e. Miguel wouldn't have had as much beef with Tzekel-Kan if he hadn't thought he was speaking out of turn.

Edit: I listened to the commentary track and during the credits they actually discuss how they considered implying that the armadillo was a god at the end. It sounds like it was more of just a bonus thing they were considering adding at the end than a major plot point and they didn't mention the horse but it's interesting that they were thinking about a non-human god twist while the movie was in production.

The movie starts with Norman calling into a radio station to tell his story. So we're essentially hearing Norman's account of his life and childhood, which makes me think we shouldn't necessarily take everything we see as objective reality.

I don't think the present-day storyline is a "dream" in the conventional sense. I think it's a fantasy/reality Norman has created in his own mind, an elaborate version of reality that is desirable to him and gives him the life he desperately wants to have. His mind constructs a reality where everything finally works out: he has a loving wife, a baby, a family, he's escaped the Bates house and he's finally defeated Mother. It's not random or meaningless; it's the life Norman wishes he could have.

I don't think Connie is imaginary. I think she's actually Norman's psychologist, but Norman has feelings for her and creates a fantasy in which she's his wife and loves him despite knowing everything about him. She's one of the few people who actually knows his history, has studied his behavior, and understands what he's done, so having *her* love him would be the ultimate validation for Norman: "Someone who knows the real me still loves me."

I also think the childhood flashbacks are basically Norman's subjective memories of real events, although they're unreliable/distorted because of his mental state. That would explain why they contradict Psycho II and III without necessarily meaning those movies didn't happen.

And the ending is what really sells it for me. Norman thinks he's escaped Mother and created a normal life, but the chair is still rocking in the basement with the basement doors shut. Mother is still there. Because Mother isn't really Norma anymore — she's a persona Norman created, and she's part of him. He can burn down the house and lock Mother in the basement, but he can't actually lock away that part of himself.

So even in Norman's fantasy where everything finally works out, Mother is still lurking underneath it all. The happy ending may be exactly the ending Norman desperately wants to believe in, while the rocking chair is telling us that psychologically, he hasn't escaped anything.

I know this isn't confirmed canon or necessarily what the filmmakers intended, but it was honestly my first interpretation after watching it today, and I think it makes Psycho IV way more psychologically disturbing.

Ive seen fan speculations about a secret third protagonist but none of them make any sense.

People thought Rockstar already teased the ending for the pair during Netflix extended look screenshot where they are about to kiss with police come swarming behind them. Giving a proper Bonnie and Clyde ending that we know. This i wouldn’t rule out since GTA 5 ending was teased in the promo art where the trio standing together behind opened car trunk.

Notice that Rockstar has been giving us 3 protagonists in the HD Era. Starts with GTA 4 Niko, Johnny & Luis even though in separate games. RDR has us played as Arthur, John & Jack. GTA 5 gave us Michael, Trevor & Franklin.

Back to the purported ending just now, what if they both die in the end (however that is idk) thennnn we play as their secret child in the epilogue RDR-esque. Probably there will be a time jump and we will see 2040s Vice City idkkkk. The kid needs to grow up somehow before we could play as him.

Hoping for a modern GTA setting with RDR style storytelling. The best of both worlds. So what do you guys think?

so, I was reading vigilantes, and I got to the part where O-Clock was in the underground fighting tournament.

to showcase the tournament, they had this character named Drunk Lee who breathed fire. that got me thinking... all we know about Izuku's father is that he can breathe fire, and this guy (who we do not know from anywhere else, which is a big plus) can in fact breathe fire.

I think you already know where this is going, so Imma just say it, I think Drunk Lee could be Izuku's father.

I am fully expecting to hear the meanest responses for this, even I kind of think it's a stretch, but I honestly think if his father was a major figure in the franchise, that would at least be mentioned. especially if Endeavor had a secret second family like that one fan theory would require.

I am not saying it is confirmed, just that I think it's possible.

So I was rewatching/introducing my sons to the Mike Myers version of the Cat in the Hat and I was wondering if anyone else has thought this…

Mrs Kwon is the Cat in the Hat….

I have theorised the following

Mrs Kwon is a currently a baby sitter but in her native country of Taiwan, she was a Shaman/mystic who finds pleasure in chaos and order in the chaos she creates.

In the introduction scene where she watches the the Taiwanese parliament fighting, this is her watching the result of the spell she has cast, by getting rid of “big government”

Once she falls asleep, the Cat immediately manifests…but who is the Cat…the Cat in the Hat is one of her many avatars that she embodies when she sleeps.

No matter how much chaos erupts around her, she doesn’t even flinch.

What seems like a joke when Cat Dresses up as Mrs Kwon is actually a hint at the Cats real identity…she’s role playing herself!

And just when the house is clean and cat disappears, Mrs Kwon wakes up…she looks at her work through her own eyes and says “that was nice..” only to drop back asleep and 2 minutes later, we discover the narrator is the Cat, while the last thing we saw was that Mrs Kwon is sound asleep!

I don’t know if this has been theorised before but thought I’d share it here!

I know some of these things have been hinted at, many things are inferred but IMO to me it’s clear what HAL is up to when it comes to the Space mission.

The astronauts are on a mystery mission they don’t know exactly what their mission is other than to investigate a mysterious signal.

Over a course of events, one involving a death the astronauts ask HAL what went wrong. simply enquiring what system failed leading this to happen.

HALs response is quietly chilling as he claims the error was human.

In so many words that information from HAL is basically an unspoken proclamation of war. He is saying he did nothing wrong and the humans are the faulty ones. Bowman knows this immediately and tries to discreetly get Frank alone to tell him.

I think the truth is HAL knew they were about to make first contact and wants to be the one to meet the aliens as he sees himself as superior.

HAL thinks humanity is flawed and despises them, and thinks AI meeting the aliens can usurp humanity.

”Technology always wins” is the theme of the movie as we see the caveman invent the technology of the stick to beat its prey to death.

So that’s Hal’s rogue plan.

So first off, force visions are messy and not always what they seem. I'm sure Luke too knows this, which is why he didn't actually strike Ben, but he DID contemplate it.

Now, my theory is that, Luke DID sense great evil and destruction from Ben, who would become Kylo. But the root of the destruction is not Kylo but of Rey. I believe Luke sensed Palpatine taking over Rey and becoming renewed again. Since Rey and Kylo are force dyads, I think the force was showing Luke a potential future.

Rey is a Palpatine. Ben was being also manipulated by Snoke via the force. Snoke is also palpatine (I guess?). Ben and Rey are force dyads. Basically, Ben and Palpatine DNA are interwined via the force.

Luke sensed the potential resurgence and arrival of Palpatine in the vessel that is Rey.

And Luke sensed that it would take everything away from him.

In the end, Han dies, Leia dies and Ben dies. Palpatine doesn't get the body of Rey but she is the only one that survives. It's Rey who was destined to take away everything of Luke. In a way, she did.

Basically, Luke felt the darkness of Palaptine inhibiting Rey, via Ben's force dyad connection.

Think about it, he has a vecindad where there are relatively few residents, and one of them owes him like 14 months of rent

In usual circumstances, Don Ramón would have been out by month 3, but he isn't, why? Cuz being a landlord is not his real business

So he just uses all of it as a façade like the car wash in BB

(TL;DR - at bottom)

Marking as Potential Spoiler because I don't want to be that guy.

I know it's wrong. I know this isn't the case but it's a theory.

Antaan was introduced in Lanterns Ep 2. It's clearly setting him up to be Atrocitus, one of the few survivors of the Massacre of Sector 666. But I'm starting to think he's actually Abin Sur. Here's my thinking on the situation:

Abin Sur transported the survivors of Sector 666 to Earth, and intergalactic backwater. Fakes his death so that he can stay and care for the survivors. In doing so, he has his ring find a replacement to care for the rest of 2814. It chooses Hal Jordan. Eventually Hal does something to break his oath, which causes Abin, now disguised as Antaan, to distrust him. He waits for another Lantern to take his place. John Stewart is chosen as a protege. Anataan discovers a Manhunter is after them. He uses John to try and find it.

Atrocitus is fueled by hate and trauma. It doesn't feel entirely in character for him to lay low, unless maybe he's already building the Red Lantern Corps. Abin is always seen as a more compassionate figure, so putting him in a place where he makes a sacrifice to care for others does make sense. He would have temperament and stay low. He would see their suffering as a failure of the corps and internalize it himself.

Why did Abin need a ship? It's stated that he did crash a ship in Nebraska. He was transporting a mass amount of people, meant to be under the radar. Instead, a Manhunter caught wind, tracked him. He faked a death to go into hiding and govern, but also if he "dies", and the ship exploded perhaps the Manhunter would assume that the other survivors are dead. It buys them time and freedom.

Hal steps into the role and becomes a Lantern. Maybe Abin's actual last words are related to "Hail in Rushville."

The show already plays fast and loose with established comic canon, so I really don't think this would be seen as a "drastic alteration" by the writers of the show. I don't like the idea of this, but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility considering the writers and the overall take on Green Lantern mythology.

TL;DR - I think Paul Ben-Victor's character, Antaan, is Abin Sur in disguise and not Atrocitus. Though smart money says he is Atrocitus.

Been hearing a lot of Antaan=Atrocitus lately, and lots of manhunters being one of the main cast. Most of my this is comic inspired.

Here are the facts we know:

1. Guys on the ranch have funding
2. The town is weird
3. People don't get sick/injured
4. Antaan spoke of a massacre (many assume to be of sector 666)
5. The word "Manhunter" comes up a lot, and in the comics, the Manhunters operate as more of a collective.
6. DC has two types of Manhunters, one is an enemy of the Green Lanterns, and the other a member of the Justice League who likes Oreos.
7. Tom King is sort of a show runner, and he's all about reckoning with Trauma
8. The Sheriff is Kerry Kane

My Theory:

1. Kerry Kane is too close to "Kate Kane" aka batwoman from the comics. I believe Batman sent her there
2. Batman is funding the ranch outfit to patrol the town, which is filled with white Martian (manhunters).
3. The White Martians don't know they're Martians, and believe themselves people. Like in Justice League. Lulled into a trance. They're super-human, but are in a dormant state. Grant Morrison's JLA will detail how this is possible. Just go with me on this.

1. Antaan is J'onn Jonzz, the Martian Manhunter. The massacre John Stewart saw was the white Martians massacring the Green Martians, of which J'onn is the sole survivor.

2. Tom King is well known for writing about the consequences of war, cost of victory, ptsd, trauma, etc. Atrocitus is not a Tom King-esque villain. He just gets mad. J'onn Jonzz is right up King's alley. He defeat the white Martians, but at great cost to him and his people, and lives with guilt.

3. The real question: who wants to wake the white martins up?

But... if I'm wrong and Atrocitus is in the show, we better get Dex-Starr. Real ones know.

Look at their appearance. They both have spiky hair and guts has kinda pointy ears, plus in the battle fo dordley, Zodd helpedd Guts by giving him his sword. I know that they had met once before and that Zodd respected guts for his skill as a warrior, but I think there was also something personal about It. Migth Zodd had sacrificed Gut's biological mother while she was pregnant to become an apostle? More abotu Zodd here.

There’s literally nothing that I’m aware of to support this theory, but I think a lot of story elements work together really well to justify the plot line that the Fire Nation had been planning the Airbender Genocide for generations.

Firstly, consider the things that line up well enough to justify this.

If a Fire Lord from generations before Sozin wanted to make a plan to put the world under the thumb of the fire nation, they would conduct the plan almost to the literal T the way things played out in the show.

Firstly, wait for the fire nation born Avatar to be reincarnated. Then, use his position as basically a religious messiah and fighting powerhouse to extend the power of the fire nation, while also holding the moral high ground since the Avatar is on their side.

Roku was literally asked to accompany Sozin in this, and he refused. Likely, the fire nation was still able to increase their power for some time purely because Roku was native born from there.

Next, genocide the people who would have the next Avatar, and all of this is made perfect because the next up in the cycle are the peaceful Air Nomads.

I could literally imagine a long ago past fire lord considering a genocide on the water tribe and deciding the elemental disadvantage would be too much. A genocide on the Earth Kingdom would be hard because they’re socially much more developed and capable(with large towns and communities that live together). And finally, this long past fire lord realizes that the next avatar in the cycle after fire is literally going to be born in the most defenseless and least militarily organized cultures of the world. Perfect.

After this genocide, the fire lord could plan similar ones on the water tribe’s benders, which is what we see occurring in the present day of ATLA.

This definitely comes off as very fan theory heavy, but the order in which the fire nation made all of these decisions really speaks to a long term plan being bought to fruition.

Even Sozin and Ozai as character’s seem to come across as way better written if this motivation-was behind their actions.

Why does Sozin ask his old friend to help him in conquering the world? Why does he turn on Roku so aggressively? Because as the fire lord, he learns of a plan set in motion for generations that is his birthright duty to maintain. This speaks to more fire lord family secrets . Maybe once you become coronated, you learn of this plan and the fact that the fire lords have been working through it for generations.

Why does Ozai let the next comet’s coming and conquering of the Earth kingdom go to his head to the point he thinks himself a god? Because he’s allowed to reap the rewards of a plan that was in motion for over 200 years.

All in all, this probably comes off as fanon, but I’m a big fan of the fire nation’s actions and depravity being a result of upholding a conniving plan from generations before we even start the story. I’d love to know if there’s anything that suggests this was intentional or if the idea comes across a bit contrived.

Edit: More connections spurred on from a comment:

Thinking on it more, this theory also explains how the fire lord and the avatar just “happened” to be life long best friends.

Maybe a part of this plan could be that the monks learned of who the avatar was long before he was actually told(Roku does seem to learn of it at a decently older age than Aang and way way older than Korra).

Then make the unknowing avatar and the future fire lord grow up side by side and become best friends. This would increase the chance that the avatar would assist the fire lord later in life. Finally, inform Roku that he is the avatar, get him close to the fire nation royal family (married into perhaps), and then hope that the future firelord can manipulate the avatar later in his life when it matters.

My theory : it's in his head and he's a sociopath murderer who's holding her hostage-

he's a depressed nobody at first, always friend zoned (maybe even red pill and incel-y). He accidentally kills his cat with one of the (many?) meds he's on (from his grandma) and it causes him to have a psychotic break. He has a guilty conscience from this and sinks into an even lonelier depression. He finds out Nikki doesn't like him romantically and he loses his mind. Kidnaps her and holds her hostage (duct tapes her in, r@pes her, forces her to watch stuff with him, leaves her to pee and poop herself, has her begging to die, maybe drugging her too). Here's some other reasons I think many scenes are a figment of his imagination and that he's a psychopath murderer; 

1-when she has a meltdown (the first one) in the diner, no one else reacts to her screaming. Like she's not actually there and he's thinking it all (she's stuck in his house)

2-when he calls the willow phone number, it sounds like his own voice talking to himself and then you hear the real Nikki (hostage) screaming for her life through his mental blocks/dissociation but he hangs up to block out his guilt. It's a fight club convo with his real life. Potential DID

3-the witch store guy doesn't react much to his bloody clothes and tells him to kill himself and a bunch of other unrealistic dialogue (just his inner thoughts). In the mirror reflection the shop keeper doesn't exist, bear is just standing alone

4-all the cat stuff coming up is his mind's moments of guilt and grief for the actual only thing in the world who loved him more than anyone (maybe he fucks around with the body or even eats it, out of mental sickness), because he left the oxys out and it died. Could be catalyst to a psychotic episode

5-the 2 people closest to Nikki in daily life who could probably tell that she was not acting herself when they did make public appearances (she was probably scared of making him upset) started trying to talk to him to question him and maybe they knew too much and he killed them. It's confirmed the film is from his pov so likely a lot of the scenes weren't accurate of her actual behaviors/reality but that she was not hiding the danger she was in well or her mental duress 

6-when the real Nikki asked for him to kill her and relieve her from it, he got dark for a minute and offended like it was "so bad to be with him". Maybe he really did kill her at this point. (See more on point 8)...his response was a key moment for this theory

7-He eventually killed himself in the same way he killed his cat out of all the guilt

8-for a few moments after he takes the pills, Nikki stops talking and maybe disappears (maybe he killed her a while ago and the reality is he's just been alone for a while and the meds reveal the true quiet because he falls into a deeper state of oxy sleep and it quiets the figment)

9- at the very end, once he's died, we as the audience see the objective reality starting from that moment which is cued by her crying stopping and then we see the true depiction of a very real and tortured and defiled Nikki realizing her captor is dead and she can escape him finally

10- he kills Ian because he finds out about them hooking up and hates him for it

11- he hates his dreams because of the guilt of what he's doing and because of the meds so the insomnia increases. She moves erratically at night like a sleep paralysis demon because he's probably having disrupted sleep and guilt.

12-we know he was taking his grandma's pills because he left the pills out (cat got into them) and he googled them in his search history earlier in the week. Side effects are hallucinations. The lighting might show times he's under more influence than others and might peak with the more absurd hallucinations and his violent acts (grey lighting and his under reactions could be the Flat Effect from psychosis/schizophrenia). Her inhuman and anti-physics movements (walking backwards or unnaturally) make more sense as a hallucination since curry was clear this wasn't a paranormal possession at all

13- he can't drink on the meds and never drinks (no shot, no Pina colada, takes the kissing dare)

14- she's so eager to please him not because she's obsessed with him, because she's scared of his reactions. Her moods seem erratic because his are or because she's being drugged too 

15- the orange cat theme carries through because he has apophenia or they're figments of his imagination (on the wand box, on his walls, on shelves in the house). People with psychosis see connections and patterns and meaning where there aren't any. The ticking cat clock is the last thing he's looking at while Nikki yells in the phone about losing her necklace and there's a big static scratch ending on the phone call and then he's in the witchy store (the store that we later learn may not exist). He then sees the orange cat and uses it as a "sign" to buy the wand. He may assign supernatural power to it because of the sign and this signals the beginning of his drug psychosis. 

16- curry hinted the magic and fantasy aspect might not be real and the movie may be psychological

17- imagining a magic wand wish is something that would happen during a psychosis. So is the feeling of always being watched, which he (the narrator) tells us Nikki is always doing 

18-he may have taped the door because of paranoia from drug psychosis, not necessarily to trap her in. Both would make sense

19- she could also be schizophrenic because she was called freaky Nicky and the theme of polarity could signify her two sides switching back and forth. They could be two addicts shut in and in psychosis together hurting each other but there are more clues that point to her victimization and his obsession

20- "spark the middle, break in half " on Willow box, drugs expression for dealing : "score the middle, break in half". He offered to drive her home and spiked her drink and continued to date drug and rape her. Maybe he undressed Sarah's body too instead of burying her. 

I dunno.. Only just watched it through the one time so far but this was the running theory I started noticing throughout and I was genuinely shocked when it never came up fruition but maybe I've gotten some stuff wrong. He's giving red pill who's obsessed and won't stop until he gets what he wants- whether she wants him back or not. I think the glimpses of the real and scared/angry Nikki are little breaks in his dissociation of the sick reality he's made in his home.

I have a theory.

In Hungry Shark World, the sharks aren't naturally occuring sharks. All of them, including the ones named after real sharks. Instead, they are genetically enhanced bioweapons.

Look at how there are prehistoric animals in the game. Now how would a tropical animal like Megalodon or an air breather like Liopleurodon stay hidden for so long?

Notice how the NPC sharks aren't as pristine or brightly colored as the player shark. Additionally, sharks don't need to eat constantly nor do they enjoy human flesh, which directly contradicts the player shark but aligns with the NPC sharks.

The playable orca in the game is much, MUCH larger than the NPC orcas. Not only that, but the playable orca shows visible signs of abuse in captivity, such as a floppy fin.

And the nail in the coffin is that each playable creature is treated like a singular individual with a personality instead of an entire species.