History WMG / Criminalminds

** [[spoiler: {{Jossed}}. At the end of season 7, [[TheBusCameBack the bus is coming back]].]]

* Jossed: Gideon never really "came back", but [[spoiler: he did not die until he was murdered off-screen by an unsub]] in season 10.

** [[spoiler: Lara]] from Heathridge manor could definitely make a reappearance as an Unsub considering how dangerous her [[spoiler: mother and older brother]] were when they thought they were doing the right thing.
** Confirmed as of s12e20. [[spoiler: Lindsey Vaughn]], a victim they rescued back in Season 3, is the person who [[spoiler: framed Reid]].
** S14 E1 "300": The cult from S4 E3's "Minimal Loss" reappears and [[spoiler: kidnaps Reid and Garcia.]]
** S14 E10 "Flesh and Blood": The current unsub is the [[spoiler: son who helped his father catch women from S3 E2 "In Name and Blood" who had contact with Prentiss.]]

** Spoilers may lend this one some credence. According to Joe Mantegna, [[spoiler: Prentiss's exit episode is "going to make '100' look like child's play"]].
*** [[spoiler: Nope. Prentiss is still alive, but she is in hiding in Europe, and with the exception of JJ and Hotch, the whole team thinks she's dead.]]
*** [[spoiler:[[HesBack Aaaand she's back.]]]]

* In "Sense Memory", [[spoiler: we see her being dragged into a car apparently against her will as MI-6 takes him into custody at the house, but we know she was Interpol at the time. [=McAllister=] tells her in "The Thirteenth Step" that Doyle's "coming for all of them". I think he found out his girlfriend was Interpol and was going to execute her, so MI-6 pulled her out before he could do the job.]] This may lead into the WMG above.
** Whoever WMG'ed this was pretty [[spoiler: exactly spot on]].

[[WMG: Reid's horrible season 9 hairstyle is actually a self-induced TraumaticHairCut as a delayed response to [[spoiler:what happened with his girlfriend Maeve]].]]

[[WMG: The series's FinalBoss will be [[spoiler:Reid's SplitPersonality.]]]]
[[spoiler:His Season 6 headaches were actually {{Foreshadowing}} for this. And while Reid himself's too much IncorruptiblePurePureness for violence, his subconscious will finally take the choice from him, emerging as a "True Night"-like WellIntentionedExtremist targeting {{Asshole Victim}}s similar to both his childhood bullies and Maeve's stalker (whom caused his MyGreatestFailure).]]

* Jossed. It is almost certainly not him.

** It's surprising there hasn't been a KnifeNut and/or CrazySurvivalist by paranoia, look-at-me-funny-and-I'll-get-you Bobbi Baird yet, seeing as not only did she seem a little off when she was saved ("Looks like I had all the 'fun'"?) but the episode ended with musing on not being so different.

** It's surprising there hasn't been a KnifeNut and/or CrazySurvivalist by paranoia, look-at-me-funny-and-I'll-get-you Bobbi Baird yet, seeing as not only did she seem a little off when she was saved ("Looks like I had all the 'fun'"?) but the episode ended with musing on NotSoDifferent.

* Jossed. Alex Blake is married to a man.

*** Gay? Nope, Prentiss is straight. He's a straight trans man, and as such, likes sex with women. He just doesn't want to transition, either because he doesn't want to go through the pharmaceutical and surgical transition, or because he doesn't think much of the FBI's view of transexuals, whether as an organization or as a group of individuals.
*** Huh. That seems even wilder and less supported than Prentiss being gay.

* Jossed. It is not him.

Who was attracted to Garcia for her physical appearance first and was simply encouraged all the more when he realised that she was also a super-tech genius. Eventually, although it wasn't the ''sole'' cause of any relationship trouble between them, she ''did'' get quite frustrated and annoyed by his constant attempts to persuade her to eat more and gain more weight. She's perfectly happy with her body as is, with no desire to actively try to lose weight ''or'' to actively try to gain weight.

** In S14 she's dating a man. (She could still be bi.)

[[WMG: Garcia's boyfriend will go AxeCrazy at some point]]

** S14 E1 "300": The cult from S4 E3's "Minimal Loss" reappears and [[spoiler:kidnaps Reid and Garcia.]
** S14 E10 "Flesh and Blood": The current unsub is the [spoiler: son who helped his father catch women from S3 E2 "In Name and Blood" who had contact with Prentiss.]

* In "Amplification" they cryptically talk say that there are many terrorist threats that have been thwarted since 9/11 and the public doesn't even know about them. We can assume that dealing with the cell was assigned to other people and the BAU was no longer needed.

*** Gay? Nope, Prentiss is straight. He's a straight transman, and as such, likes sex with women. He just doesn't want to transition, either because he doesn't want to go through the pharmaceutical and surgical transition, or because he doesn't think much of the FBI's view of transexuals, whether as an organisation or as a group of individuals.

** To take it one step futher, this troper would love to see Elle return in this dramatic fashion, having gone totally bonkers since she left.

** Seemingly confirmed as of s12e20. [[spoiler: Lindsey Vaughn]], a victim they rescued back in Season 3, is apparently the person who [[spoiler: framed Reid]].

** The whole group is the Justice League: Prentiss is Wonder Woman, García is Oracle, Reid is The Flash and Morgan is the Stewart Green Lantern. Also, Strauss is Amanda Waller.

* No, see his Dad was a Time-Lord and therefore died/ceased to exist during the Time War, but his mother wasn't so heartbroken that she never told him the truth. She did tell him the truth. That's right - his delusional, schizophrenic mother told him that his father was an alien Lord of Time who came from the future and fell in love with a Human, fathering a child before going off to fight a species of xenophobic squid-brains in man-sized flying-tanks before ceasing to have existed. See, that's the reason she went crazy. Her long life with her husband now conflicts with the memories she now has of him not existing. It doesn't help that in her memories of his non-existence, she suddenly recieved an immaculate conception.

[[WMG:Reid is developing a split personaily]]
He's having headaches like Adam Jackson did, he had a tramatic childhood, has a tramatic job, feels a lot of sympathy for some of the InsaneEqualsViolent Unsubs and a family history of mental illness. He may become the heroic counterpart to Unsubs with disslocative identy disorder.

Suspect Behavior didn't last long, but something tells this troper that the Spin-Off train is far from derailed. Instead of doing it in the POV of the men that catch the criminals why not in the POV of one of the best Unsubs. I could see it now: Johnny [=McHale=]. After finally coming to terms with his fiance's murder, he gets released from the asylum. While spending it mostly on rebuilding his career. He feels the urge that he had during his PTSD and goes out to fight crime once again.

After running away from the BAU Gideon remembered how much he enjoyed taking down that terroist in "Lessons Learned" and joined the CIA. He changed his name to Saul Bereson and grew a beard to stop his old colleges tracking him down.

[[WMG: The Replicator's Last Victim wiil be Gideon and/or the Replicator IS Gideon]]

First off, let's go back to the first line the Replicator delievers in his arc, to Reid.

As Reid helpfully defines, Zugzwang is a chess term when a player realizes he will inevtiabely be mated (and further, that any move made by that player would be detrimental to them; the only good move would be not to move, which is not possible in chess) Now, as it stands, as explained by Hotchner, he sent it as a method of saying the game has changed (and a further, deeper meaning that the BAU will only make things worse, not better; they ruined Bidwell's life beforehand, and their arrest of him lead to his suicide;) however, there is something important about this being directed at Reid.

Who was the person who consistenly beat Reid in Chess, and was basically Reid's only chess partner up until he left?

Secondly, though this is a bit more meta: They metioned Gideon for the first time in a while in Carbon Copy. For some reason, the writers want Gideon to be in our heads.

Third, the bloody picture of Hotch. I realize this one is a massive strecth, but perhaps it is a call back to the college girl in Doubt, who smeared out the victims' faces with blood; her suicide was the straw that broke the camel's back for Gideon.

Now, JJ was sent flowers with the same phrase; I am sure there is some signifcance here I am missing, but I am fairly sure it connects to the Fisher King's butterfly that was sent to JJ (hell, the Replicator in general is a pretty similar type to the Fisher King)

I admit there is not a lot of evidence here, but I am fairly certian there is some connection between the Replicator and Gideon. I think the major theme and motivation for the Replicator's obession, regardless of there being connection or not, will be the BAU doing more harm than good, which is part of why Gideon decided to leave.

* This is pretty hopeful, because its completely stupid to not renew the contract for one of the most liked characters and then immediately hire a replacement (I hate the process more than Sever, at least she's trying). Much like how Garcia has become the internet connection for the new team, they'll include appearances by a former character as well. Come late season 1 - season 2 for SB JJ will be the new media liaison. Notably this WMG has lots of personal JustBugsMe (on the new show Witiker and that brunette are ok, everyone else is blah).

[[WMG: Agent Hotchner is secretly a {{Grimm}}.]]

[[WMG: There will be a meta-heavy episode set in the set of a Criminal Minds-fictional counterpart]]

Jossed. It is not him.

*** Huh. That seems even wilder than just Prentiss being gay.