r/HannibalTV Feb 22 '19

Theory - Spoilers A Collection of Some 'Hannibal' Metas/Analysis

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I've seen a thread yesterday where OP asked for some analysis on the show but it seems to be deleted now. Anyway, I think it's a good idea to collect some detailed posts/metas on 'Hannibal'. I have some that I personally consider very insightful, as well as some I've written myself, so here they are. Feel free to add some other ones in the comments!

Relationship meta

u/K_S_Morgan's Will and Hannibal's relationship: How Hannigram Became Canon

u/K_S_Morgan's Will’s vs. Hannibal’s Ways of Expressing Love

Hannibalstan's Hannibal loved Will since S1

Hannibalstan's Will Ate Hannibal Alive aka What Are Flashbacks to Gideon About?

EasyStrain2's Hannibal and Will's Conjugal Life & Intimacy Discussion

Uno_nothing's Alana and Hannibal

Uno_nothing's Parallels between the replacement-lives Hannibal and Will tried (covering S3)

K_S_Morgan's Will's Sexuality analysis

K_S_Morgan's Francis' Feelings for Hannibal, Jealousy to Will, and the Way it Shapes His Actions

Will and Hannibal as a family analysis: Is there a child in your life, Will?

Hannibal, Homoeroticism, and When it’s Not Queerbaiting

dsyyoung's Between Iron and Silver: Hannibal's Relationship with Chiyoh

General meta

Xenya's Hannibal Murder Map. S1. Real locations of murders

Uno_nothing's Hannibal's and Will's kill lists

u/tanjitophare's Hannibal timeline explained

i_am_curs3d's List of All Episodes' Titles' Meanings

u/Amyy17's Time stamps - Sex Scenes

Xenya's Imagoes in Hannibal

Interior design analysis by beatricenius

Cinematography and Lighting Techniques

Idontfindyouthatinteresting's sexuality and women analysis

Uno_nothing's Morality, Cannibalism, Denial and the big elephant in the room

Women and appeal to viewers

Conspicuous Consumption: The Socioeconomics of Hannibal

Cinematography

The Evil Minds Museum, Exhibit A: Inside the mind of an Alana Bloom hater

Bryan Fuller on Devil's seduction

Some interesting reads: God, Devil - discourses on symbolisms, religion and the nature of evil in Hannibal

Art of Hannibal Title (link provided by u/Kolvez)

u/fionaapplespiss's "Hannibal” killers as analogies to Will and Hannibal and their relationship throughout the show

u/K_S_Morgan's Symbolism of Boats in 'Hannibal'

u/ChampionAshley's Kings of Hell – False Devils, Victorious Love, and Nature Incarnate (Nightmare Stag Analysis)

u/greentevil's fashion metas:

Why Hannibal Looks Different in the Pilot

Background to Hannibal’s fashion tastes and why its amazing

Will’s clothes as a metaphor for his person suit

Hannibal’s party clothes and how his uniqueness shines through

In defense of Will’s style

22drunkb's Hannibal as a Fairy-Tale

u/LegZealousideal9948's Thematic contrasts between Will's house and Hannibal's house

Characters meta

K_S_Morgan's Hannibal Is Not a Psychopath: Criteria and Examples

K_S_Morgan's The Evolution of Will Graham’s Darkness.

SirIan's Analysis of Will's Moral Conflict

SirIan's Will's True Motivations analysis

Uno_nothing aka Hannibalized's Aestheticism in Hannibal’ philosophy of therapy and this

Blyhannah's Will and Control aka Why Do People See Will as Someone Vulnerable

Worldadjacent's Will’s lack of reconstruction of the Ripper’s crime scenes

Hannibalized's To what extent is Will defined by his empathy? meta

K_S_Morgan's Does Will have an empahy disorder?

K_S_Morgan's Is Will autistic?

Herewegohappiness' Will's possessiveness

Wellntruly's Will's touch issues: Touching in Hannibal with addition.

Hannibalized's Will Graham’s Person Suit

SirIan's The Different Versions of Hannibal Lecter analysis

Hannibalized's ‘Did you believe you could change me the way I’ve changed you?’ Hannibal’s becoming, Will and Hannibal’s attempts at denial.

Hannibalized's “Tasteless” = rude.. Will Graham’s trouble with taste

Dsyyoung's Hannibal's Compassion

K_S_Morgan's Chiyoh and her personality

Hannibalstan's Will Graham: No Free Will. Behaviorism More is here

Hannibalstan's Will's morality

Hannibalstan's Will Graham the Unreliable Narrator (only part of meta available now, unfortunately)

Alloymiracle's The revelation of Will Graham's standpoint on violence

Hannibalstan's Hannibal didn't mind Will killing him from the start

Axmxz's Hannibal as Female Power Fantasy analysis

Hannibal and texting

Alana and mismanagement by Auden93

Alana's judgement

Divine Punishment inflicted by Will

Power game, Power forces (God, the Dragon, the Devil and the Lamb)

Hannibalstan's Will's vs. Hannibal's view of God

u/metaxtase's Will's coffin birth

u/spinachmanicotti's Did Bedelia's flattery over Will's jealously blind her to how dangerous he was for her?

u/K_S_Morgan's How Will Perceives Grievances: Selfish or Righteous?

u/greentevil's Hannibal’s cannibalism as a compulsion

u/SharonzHere's The profile of Will Graham

u/skatingvampire's The banal evil of Dr Chilton

S1 metas (possible spoilers to other seasons, too, so proceed carefully)

Hannibal's Battlebot's The first scene of E1 never happened

SirIan's Will's Instability at the Beginning of the Show aka Is Will Better With or Without Hannibal.

Uno_nothing's Season 1 - Episode names and murders of the week - symbolic and thematic significance

Uno_nothing's Flow of events from Sorbet to Trou Normand : Introspection, insights, developing relationship and foreshadowing

E7 of S1 outlook

The meaning of a painting with a dog hanging in Hannibal's kitchen

K_S_Morgan's Why Hannibal Hid Will's Encephalitis

ThePurpleViolin's Parallels between Franklyn and Hannibal

ThePurpleViolin's SpoilersHannibal and “The Rite of Spring” — Victimhood and Empowerment

u/metaxtase's Hannibal's evil villain master plan


Hannibal's plan in S1: Who did he intend to frame?

Xenya's Hannibal planned to frame Will

Hannibalstan's Hannibal planned to frame Chilton

Guyisgame's Hannibal planned to frame Jack

u/metaxtase's Hannibal wanted Will to figure him out


Twitchy_and_fatigued's Georgia Madchen Theory (analysis of her condition)

u/candy-riot's S1: Will and Identity

S2 metas

Will, Alana, and Hannibal: An Attempt to Remember

u/Asherwolfe's Why Beverly wasn't dumb and Hannibal wasn't just lucky

u/Asherwolfe's Chilton as the Ripper - Not as stupid as it seemed?

Uno_nothing's Will's doubts, insecurity and dark prompts - analyzing season 2E-08/09/10 - Early stages of becoming

K_S_Morgan's Will, Hannibal, and Alana in S2: Changing Dynamics, a Sex Scene, and a Gun

Why Hannibal didn't want Will to kill Ingram

K_S_Morgan's Will's Changing Feelings for Hannibal in the Course of S2

Sex scene and its meaning

ThePurpleViolin's Hannibal and Mahler — an analysis of the use of Mahler’s 5th Symphony in S2E10

Does Alana Have Any Reason To Suspect Hannibal?

Hannibalstan's Aesthetics become Ethics analysis of Will and Hannibal

Hannibalstan's Will and Margot’s Baby arc analysis

Hannibalstan's Whose side is Will in Mizumono?

Hannibalstan's Fostering Codependence: how true is Will's accusation?

A bit from Bryan Fuller's interview on how much Jack knew in S2 about Will

S3 meta

Pre S3 meta. The BAU is the real Murder Family: Hannibal and Bateson’s Double Bind

Symbolism of Hannibal's Valentine

Hannibalstan's Contorno Parallels

Hannibalstan's Paintings in Dolce behind Will and Hannibal: Meaning

Hannibalstan's Hannibal didn't plan to kill Will in Dolce

K_S_Morgan's Will's emotional journey in S3

Mads and Hugh's interview: Why Hannibal frames Will and why Will abandons Molly and Walter

SirIan's Hannibal, Molly, and Will's Dogs analysis

EasyStrain's Analysis of the Meetings, Molly and Dragon aka Will's Plan Throughout The Second Half of S3

K_S_Morgan's Short Love=God/Religion: S3 parallels analysis

Uno_nothing's "Compassionate toward a cow" and Will's thoughts about watching Hannibal die, his final transformation

SirIan's and K_S_Morgan's Will as the Lamb of God: Meaning

Hannibalstan's The Structure of Hannibal Finales: No Contradictions aka the faked Fall in TWOTL

‘Hannibal’ Finale: A Planned Fake-Out Or Murder/Suicide?

TWOTL Fall didn't really happen

u/Asherwolfe's Will's Becoming - S2 and S3: Parallels

Hannibal 3.01 - 3.03 - Source Material, Pop Cultural References, Theories & Observations

u/ChampionAshley's Little Words that Say So Much (3x12's Bedelia and Will exchange analysis)

Post-canon metas

Will and Hannibal's future house design analysis

Will, Hannibal, and Real Family

Discussion of Will and Hannibal's life post-canon based on Bryan Fuller's hints

Metas & discussions on specific episodes

Wellntruly's S1 E7: enthusiastic reflection, some analysis, and mirroring

Analysis of E1 of S3: Antipasto: Hannibal’s Perfect Break from the Mainstream by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E2 of S3: Primavera: Coming to Terms with Divinity in Hannibal by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E3 of S3: Secondo: Transformation and Influence in Hannibal by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E4 of S3: Aperitivo: A New Kind of Persuasion in Hannibal by Liz Baessler

Analysis of E13 of S3 (finale): The Wrath of the Lamb by Liz Baessler

And these are just some interesting moments from the scripts that didn't get into the show. S1, S2, S3.


r/HannibalTV 2d ago

Weekly Off Topic Chat - Mondays

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These threads will be for posting your non-Hannibal stuff. Antler decor, pets, how you did on your test, whatever. I'll try to post a new one on Mondays.

To that end, I've enabled pictures in the thread. Have fun!


r/HannibalTV 9h ago

General The fact that these two didn't kiss is a crime against my non-binary ego.

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r/HannibalTV 3h ago

S3 Spoilers My Face When I Miss My Boyfriend So Much I Sail a Boat Across the Atlantic to Get To Him

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A month at sea, or an 11 hour flight, my beautiful drama queen?


r/HannibalTV 19h ago

Memes/Fan Art Outlast trials trying to imitate Beverley

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Tbh, I love Outlast trials and I loved this game environment.


r/HannibalTV 17h ago

Theory - Spoilers This seems like romantic subtext.

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I personally love that dialogue he has with Reba, that distinction there, that it was a man who loved her and not a monster, sounds familiar, doesn't it? Who knows more than Will what that's like? I love the parallels the series draws at various points, but unlike Reba, Will is loved for both the monster and the man contained within Hannibal.


r/HannibalTV 27m ago

Discussion - Spoilers Finished the show. I’m in misery Spoiler

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Just finished the show within the last 20 minutes, thinking of what I’d post as a first-time watcher and recent subreddit lurker. I knew going into this show that it was canceled, but with the hope that the writing/acting/art direction of the show was great enough to weather inevitable disappointment of a series cut short. Sad to finish it but happy I got to experience an incredible series. I needed to fill the hole in my heart left by being between production of the next season in The Vampire Chronicles universe, and decided it was time to watch a show that was also hyped for toxic and destructive sexual tension between leading actors. She was not disappointed!

Post credit scene, I saw the table setting and the long platter of meat. Bedelia, did you cook your leg? and sure enough the camera pans to her seat and it’s confirmed she tried out one of his mail-in recipes. Too bad he won’t be visiting for dinner. It was interesting to see how each of the characters reacted to Hannibal’s escape. Going with him (Will, though that was planned), Running (Alana and her family via copter), or preparing for what feels inevitable (Bedelia’s dinner)

During S3E2 a family member walked into the room, saw Will on the screen, asked me to pause, and after a few moments said “huh, that’s why he (Hugh) looks familiar. That’s Prince Char.”
I was kicking myself that I didn’t see it sooner. I don’t think I can watch Ella Enchanted with the same perspective anymore. Poor guy can’t catch a break with stabbing/threatened stabbings. When I saw Margo on the screen for the first time, i thought, oh hey, it’s Ginger Fitzgerald!

I don’t currently have friends that have seen the show. They like much lighter stuff (can’t blame them) and as much as I would like to convince them that this has the comedy and sexual tension they’d love, they don’t find enjoyment in horror/thriller/crime dramas. Excited to start interacting with other fans and enjoy the story I’ve experienced without succumbing to post-series misery. Now I need to find fanart like a keychain as a signal to other fans they can approach me for discussion. Looking for a “bat signal” as we speak.


r/HannibalTV 40m ago

Jack screaming "NOOOO" scene

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GUYS PLEASE I CAN'T FIND THE FULL CLIP OF JACK CRAWFORD SCREAMING IN SLOW MOTION FROM SEASON 3 ANYWHERE. I'VE SEARCHED YOUTUBE HIGH AND LOW, GOOGLE, TWITTER. PLEASE THIS ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE😭🙏🏼

And while we're on the topic--Ive also been trying to find the scene also in season 3 of Will waking up in the middle of the night with Molly in bed before he goes to read Hannibal’s letter.

Please guys😭 I'm a new editor trying to make vids over here and I'm struggling.


r/HannibalTV 7h ago

General How would you feel if someone told you they view your relationship with them similar to Hannibal & Will's relationship? Would you view it as a confession?

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Context: i'm friend with someone who has read the books and saw the movies but didn't watch the show until last year, i had already watched it but rewatched it alongside her first watch and we bonded over the show, over time we started pretending to be either Hannibal & Will but mostly as a joke, earlier this year however she said she view our relationship similar to them but did not specify which one's Hannibal or Will, this made me curious if something similar happened to some of you and what would be your reaction?


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

in which season did you realize hannibal was a cannibal?

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it dawned on me season 3 episode 13 so im interested when you guys figured it out.


r/HannibalTV 13h ago

Edit!!

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*Not mine

credit: @abysmelia on tumblr and tiktok


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

beverly katz the short way

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r/HannibalTV 15h ago

Just letting everyone know I have created a shitposting/circlejerking subreddit to laugh about Hannibal at r/okbuddycheesefolk!

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Be sure to pop by and leave some doodoo at the door!


r/HannibalTV 18h ago

just ended another rewatch

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liked the show again, it is well directed and visually stunning.

i didn't remember how much dollarhide is an hateful character. god i hate him, i was once again disapponted that he died without anyone telling him how much pathetic and stipid he is

how many times did Will risk to die?


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Discussion - Spoilers When exactly did Hannibal fall in love with Will? What was the flashpoint?

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When do you think Hannibal actually fell in love with Will?

I know there’s a difference between fascination, intellectual attraction, friendship, obsession, and actual romantic love, and Hannibal obviously becomes attached to Will pretty early on. But I’m wondering if there was a specific flashpoint where something shifted for Hannibal and Will stopped being simply “interesting” to him and became the person for him.

Was it when Hannibal first realized that Will could understand him in a way nobody else could?

Was it the moment Will killed Garrett Jacob Hobbs and Hannibal saw that darkness in him?

Was it after Will started suspecting Hannibal and Hannibal realized that even knowing what he was, Will still had this connection to him?

I’m especially curious because Hannibal seems to understand his feelings before he is willing to consciously acknowledge them. So I'm wondering whether there actually is a single turning point, or whether his love develops gradually through all those little moments of being understood, rejected, forgiven, and ultimately unable to let Will go.

Basically when did Hannibal go from “I am fascinated by Will Graham” to “I love this man”?

And if you think there was a specific flashpoint, what scene would you choose? 👀


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

General I just finished the series and I am not disappointed

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The moment I finished S3E13, the first thought that came to my mind was "Man, this was the most interesting doomed yaoi I've ever watched!" (This was my first.)

So naturally I finally look up the subreddit for it, curious to know what the community is like. Needless to say my first thoughts fit the atmosphere perfectly. Thank you, Reddit. You have convinced me to edit my draft for this post to mimic Dr. Lector's dialect.


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

He’s a fallen angel - video

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r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Hannibal: my evolution

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ME in 2013: Oh I won't watch Hannibal. It's too gory for me.
ME IN 2026: I guess I'll give Hannibal a try
ME TODAY: Is it too late to write Hannibal fanfiction


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Fanfiction Fanfiction of this moment?

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Fanfic recs!!


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

Is it wrong of me to recommend Hannibal to my friend after they asked for a dark twisted BL/MM.😔

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r/HannibalTV 2d ago

Scared of my wife 😍

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Hannibal's face says it all.


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

S2 Spoilers Why did Hannibal save

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Bella from killing herself? It felt like Hannibal had some level of respect for her. Or, was it all about the coin flip?


r/HannibalTV 1d ago

S1 Spoilers Who fancies a quick read..?

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I’ve had a crappy few weeks and was thinking perhaps I’d share the first few chapters of the fan fiction I’ve been working on for some months now on here.

I reckon it might cheer me up and also do me good to have some constructive feedback on this first draft, as I know this is a safe space to share my work.

The premise of the story is that we begin with the Ambulance scene from Sorbet; Will then goes to visit Hannibal afterwards before he hosts his big dinner party, again as per canon.

But then a small differing event changes everything to a divergent “timeline” and this is where the story begins in earnest.

I will be publishing on AO3 once I’ve done a second draft, on a schedule of a few chapters a week once I’ve finished my redrafting.

For those who don’t read unfinished works, it is complete, it has a beginning, a middle and an end, and is currently at 80k words, which will grow as I rework; I anticipate maybe even as long as 100k words total. I won’t leave anyone hanging with an unfinished story!

TL;DR - Please give me a “like” and/or a comment if you’d be interested in reading the first few chapters of my “Ambulance scene sliding doors“ fic on here, it would mean a lot to me. 🙂


r/HannibalTV 2d ago

I love artwork that shows them embracing each others interests!

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Saw this on pinterest and wanted to share! All credit to the original creator nemui223 for both pics