History WMG / CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory

If they had been random, then Mike Teevee would not have been able to use his leet hacking skills to intercept one. Because the wrong person -- one who hated chocolate -- got the fourth one, Wonka delayed sending out the fifth one (the one Charlie ultimately got) while he thought out an appropriate trap for Mike; by the time he had, the contest was nearly over, and Wonka had to change the fifth one's target to "someone who lives close to the factory."

[[WMG: Mr. Wonka is [[WhateleyUniverse a Devisor]]]]

[[WMG: The Golden Ticket found in South America wasn't a forgery.]]
Wonka's plan to find a successor required that each Golden Ticket wind up in the hand of a ''child'', not an adult. Wonka couldn't be sure that only kids, or parents of kids who'd bring their child along as their "plus one", would find the things. He therefore arranged for ''each'' of the five Tickets to have some apparent subtle flaw or typo, so that if a couple of adults found a Ticket and insisted on taking the tour themselves, their Ticket could be "exposed as a fake" and a new Ticket-loaded chocolate bar, shipped out to some lucky child.

Or, perhaps, to a candy shop that "just happened" to be within spitting distance of Wonka's factory, whose proprietor would be instructed to hand it over to the first gracious, needy kid who came along. Nothing like a heartwarming "Poor Kid Wins Contest!" story to distract attention from how Wonka just set some poor schmuck in South America up for fraud charges.

Or, perhaps, to a candy shop that "just happened" to be within spitting distance of Wonka's factory, whose proprietor would be instructed to hand it over to the first gracious, needy kid who came along. Nothing like a "Poor Kid Wins Contest!" story to distract attention from how Wonka just set some poor schmuck in South America up for fraud charges.

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[[WMG: Wonka is [[TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi Suzumiya]]]]

[[WMG: The Candy Man is [[TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]]]]

[[WMG: Mr. Wonka is [[TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi Suzumiya's]] father.]]

!!Theories for the Creator/TimBurton version]

[[WMG: Veruca grows up to be the Franchise/{{Batman}} villianess The Absence]]

* WillyWonka is the original Jewish interpretation of Satan from The Book of Job. That concept of the Devil [[SatanIsGood worked for God]], tempting people to determine who was just in His eyes. Instead of [[NightmareFuel inflicting horrible plagues on Charile]], Satan decided to tempt the kids by appealing to their sin.

At least in [[WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory the first film]], it was said Mr. Salt's workers haven't done their jobs for three days. Maybe Wonka decided to get another supplier and hate Salt for failing him.

[[WMG: Wonka is [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]]]]
Yeah, not just a [[RunningGag time lord]], but ''The'' Doctor. Details [[http://www.tickld.com/x/this-guy-just-changed-the-way-we-see-willy-wonka-and-doctor-who here.]]

1. Augustus: Sent to a psychiatric/obesity treatment clinic in order to stop him from eating himself and to lose weight. Becomes a bitter fitness guru who tortures children in a fat camp.
2. Violet: Becomes forever known as the flexible blue girl. Gets her own superhero movie franchise, but has to spend a lot of her earnings repairing her teeth and jaw from all that gum-chewing. Lives in mortal fear of blueberries.
3. Veruca: Her parents must dramatically downsize when the economy crashes. Veruca, unable to take the pressure, eventually ends up homeless, until she's taken in to work as a nanny/maid for kids who are just as spoiled as she was.
4. Mike: Grows up to be one of those people who attempts to commit violent crimes because he was inspired by video games and television. None of his plots ever quite worked out, however, so he is eventually paroled from prison. The catch is, he must spend hours of community service repaying his debt to society by tutoring special-needs children (thus getting back at him for the "retard" comment in the 2005 film) and working as a janitor in a chocolate shop. Eventually invents a tell-all video game based on Wonka's sadistic factory, but it doesn't sell well because everyone loves Wonka.

[[WMG: Actually, Wonka is [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica another kind]] of [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Witch]], and the Chocolate Factory is ''her'' [[EldritchLocation Barrier]].]]

* In the stage musical version, Wonka actually admits to this.
** In this version, Charlie's temptation is apparently the Fizzy Lifting Drinks, as Everlasting Gobstoppers are only mentioned in passing. He and Grandpa Joe taste them in a scene similar to the 1971 movie, and Wonka praises them both for apologizing and being smart enough not to get caught in the first place.

In the TimBurton film, Georgina knew exactly what everyone was talking about. She just acted like she didn't to mask her true intelligence.

!!Theories for the TimBurton version]