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[[WMG: Slappy is [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E148CaesarAndMe Caesar]].]]

* Wouldn't Sarah have turned into a ghost like Della when she got bit by a snake?

The reason there is no money involved is that they just want to test the switching method to make money later on. Of course, this is forbidden, so they aim at kids who are naive enough not to ask and of course don't ask for their parent's permission.

[[WMG: "Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid" is a never-ending loop because the book and card game are a trap.]]

* It would make an appropriately silly TwistEnding for Goosebumps (i.e humans keep hermit crabs as pets, so a big giant one would want to keep humans as pets.)

The ''real'' Creep leaders had been observing that school for some time and concluded that Ricky would be the perfect candidate to forward their secret invasion since they needed a fairly intelligent, yet deeply bitter and troubled kid who'd be easily swayed to the dark side. They then planted [[TheHeavy Jared, Wart, Brenda, and David]] there(who'd be far too gullible, blindly loyal, and uncharismatic to lead themselves) and encouraged them to make life as miserable as possible for him, which would lead to him doing something drastic that "ousted" him as their commander. As what happens to every place touched by the Creeps, Ricky would soon kickstart the school's assimilation into a growing army, [[UnwittingPawn all under the impression that he was their true leader.]]

* Since this series seems to mostly take place in the 2000s/2010s,(while the original series is in the 90s) it'd be an interesting opportunity to find out what just happened to these kids and how their supernatural experiences have affected them as adults.

She fits the description of Sarah a lot better along with being perfectly opaque, unlike see-through Della. And the surface looks like clammy cold white skin more than bone. Perhaps Sarah was killed by the snake, her body dumped in the lake to hide the evidence, but whatever magic was in the lake kept her from decomposing too much and somehow her soul stayed with her body/corpse and we got what we see on the cover today. As a result, she'll either be NightmareFuel, fetish fuel, or perhaps just CreepySexy[=/=]UglyCute in her way.

In ''Slappy's Nightmare'', another dummy, Wally, is introduced as his twin for Jimmy O'James to use for his show while Slappy tries to learn AnAesop about doing something nice for a change. Same cold blue eyes, same expression, looks exactly like him, except his hair color is ''never'' mentioned. In the first book, aside from their different outfits and the trademark chip on Slappy's lip, the only thing that could differentiate them otherwise is their hair color. Slappy is a brunette; Mr. Wood is a redhead. Therefore, it may be the same dummy, different name (and his brief appearance can be due to either the ''Goosebumps 2000'' books being a separate series, or [[spoiler: the AllJustADream ending]]).

* Also, the various Crazy scientists seen throughout the series (Brewer, Deep, Hawlings, The Shopkeeper) are secretly researching weapons for the government to combat these supernatural menaces. After all, a bunch of deflatable green ogres wouldn't last 10 minutes against genetically engineered, carnivorous super plants.

In this case, the substance merged the snails and Jelly, as well as endowed it with budding PsychicPowers, similar to Dr. Rockwell and the Rat King. His existence was never revealed to the public since undercover Kraang agents carried away his body.

There's no indication that the book is set in the present day (or what was the present day when the book came out) there's enough TotallyRadical elements to indicate the story is set around 1980, most notably how the game that all the kids love is a late 70's/early 80's style coin-op arcade game.

* As the comic suggests, Will Blake was just one of a clan of werewolves living in the swamp. Both he and Grady will show up to help fight off the werewolf hunters, having made amends for Will's actions. And on that note, Cassie O Rourke will appear as well, but as one of the antagonists. It turns out finding both her friends became savage wolf creatures drove her fascination with Werewolves into fanatical hatred, and she's since joined the hunters in a bid to purge Fever Swamp of the creatures for good.

* ''Calling All Creeps''-While Ricky many not be particularly popular, the extent to which he is actually targeted by bullies is *severely* overstated to help him justify his willingness to sell out humanity to the Creeps.

Hence why the camp implied supernatural stuff was going on as part of its SecretTestOfCharacter-Billy needs to be prepared in case he encounters a werewolf, vampire or ghost, which are not hazards on the planet ''Welcome to Camp Nightmare'' is set on.

[[folder: The Books]]

[[folder: The Series]]

[[folder: The Movie]]

[[WMG: The Masked Mutant will make a surprise appearance in TheMovie.]]
He'll turn out to be disguised as one of the Protagonists.
* Jossed, The Masked Mutant does not appear as any one of the protagonists [[spoiler: but Hannah is from "The Ghost Next Door"]]
[[WMG: Ryan Lee will play Zach and Hannah's platonic best friend]]
[[Blog/BloggerBeware And he'll disappear halfway through the movie.]]

[[WMG: Hannah is from the books too.]]
Either she's an original, non-Goosebumps creation that Stine made, or she's based on one of the monsters - possibly the dog-children from ''My Hairiest Adventure''.
* Considering she's Zach's next-door neighbor, she could be Hannah, the main character from book #10, ''The Ghost Next Door''.
** [[spoiler: Confirmed, she is the girl from "The Ghost Next Door"]]

[[WMG: Somebody will try to wish the Abominable Snowman back into the book]]
But they'll get Clarissa from ''Be Careful What You Wish For'' to do it and it'll screw up, causing the other monsters to be unleashed.
* Jossed: Slappy is the one who unleashes all the monsters. [[spoiler: R.L. Stine is the one who gets the Abominable Snowman in the book initially, but Slappy releases it again]]

[[WMG: Some of the monsters will be on the heroes' side.]]
Quite a few from the series are relatively non-malicious, and some books have supernatural entities as the protagonists(Ghost next Door, My Hairiest Adventure, How I Learned To Fly).
* Jossed: All of the monsters appear to be after the main characters and the townspeople.
* Actually, confirmed. [[spoiler: Hannah is ''technically'' one of Stine's monsters.]]

[[WMG: The Jack Black portrayed as Stine is an impostor.]]
Besides the whole "magic manuscripts" business and his fictional daughter, the ''real'' R.L Stine has been confirmed for a cameo. To elaborate, it could be he's the Masked Mutant, who can somehow cross into reality. He may have escaped from his book, usurped Stine's identity, taken on Hannah from Ghost Next Door as a "daughter" and eventually tricked Zach into unlocking the books so he could gather a monster army.
* Jossed, [[spoiler: R.L. Stine plays [[Creator/JackBlack "Mr. Black"]] [[CelebrityParadox a drama teacher.]]]]

[[WMG: Some HiddenVillain manipulated Zach into finding the manuscripts.]]
* Jossed, he finds them when concerned for Hannah.

[[WMG: A similar thing happened with Creator/RodSerling, with the recordings of his scripts containing the monstrosities (physical and moral) of his works.]]
* See the Twilight Zone episode "A World of His Own"

[[WMG: The Blob that Ate Everything isn't what Stine says it is.]]
When Stine, Hannah, and the other two [[spoiler: run out the Funhouse]], Stine mentions that it's "The Blob that Ate Everything". For hardcore fans of Goosebumps, The Blob that Ate Everything has a face, which leads fans to mention that the monster Stine faces, is Monsterblood.

[[WMG: R. L. Stine isn't human.]]
With the ''real'' R. L. Stine making a cameo [[spoiler: as "Mr. Black"]], it is theorized that Creator/JackBlack's Stein, is a written character, guarding the manuscripts in case the monsters from the manuscripts escape from them (and they do), and he can put them back.
* Slappy hints to Stine at the theater, that he "created him, or is it the other way around?". Noting that Stine may have been written like the rest of the characters.

[[spoiler: Came to mind after reading the segment above about The Blob That Ate Everything and the typewriter above, but the reason R. L. Stine can use the typewriter to create literal monsters is he isn't human. He's a humanoid being with supernatural powers that allow him to create his monsters, and the typewriter is disguised alien technology.]]

[[WMG: Stine's typewriter, is The Haunted Typewriter]]
The plot in itself is not only related to "The Blob that Ate Everything", but is also related to the intro sequence in the show that shows Stine's manuscript pages flying out of the suitcase and bringing all the fictional stories to life. Meaning that this entire plot is related to Goosebumps.

[[WMG: The Sequel will have a child with similar powers to Stine's]]
They'll be bullied and alone like Stine was, but they'll find solace in the ''Goosebumps'' books. They'll be able to bring the monsters out of the books, no manuscript or typewriter required, and control them to send them against their enemies.
* Jossed.

[[WMG: Hannah wasn't the only character Stine allowed to stay in the real world]]
Considering how quite a few of the monsters(and non-human protagonists) were portrayed in a sympathetic light, and how many are missing from Slappy's mob, they may be living in secret across the country with Stine keeping watch on them. Some of them might be laying low out of fear (The Beasts, Plant-Brewer), respect (The Masked Mutant, Clarissa,) or because they look up to him like a father, similar to Slappy and Hannah (Erin and Marty, The Sadler ghosts, Della, Keith).
* Confirmed in a way. [[spoiler: Stine accidentally left the Invisible Boy out of the new story. He and Hannah are the only confirmed monsters to still be in the real world.]]

[[WMG: The Masked Mutant will be the BigBad of the sequel.]]
* Jossed.

[[WMG: [[SeriesMascot Curly the Skeleton]] will appear in the sequel.]]
* Jossed.

[[WMG: Horrorland will be the setting for the sequel.]]
* Jossed, the title of the film is "Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween".

[[WMG: The Hannah from the end of the movie is the Masked Mutant.]]
* Jossed.

[[WMG: Heroes from the books will come out to help fight the villains in the sequel.]]
* Sadly Jossed.

[[WMG: Actors from the TV series will appear as themselves to help fight the villains in the sequel.]]
Similar to "Wes Craven's New Nightmare", stars from the TV series (e.g. Ryan Gosling, Hayden Christensen, Corey Sevier, etc.) will appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, and will be granted special powers to fight the villains, similar to "The Dream Warriors" or "The Dream Master".
* Bonus Guess: Some of them will gain powers similar to their characters (e.g. Dan Warry-Smith, who played Skipper Matthews in "Attack of the Mutant", will become the Colossal Elastic Boy).
* Jossed.

[[WMG: Slappy will be DemotedToDragon in the sequel.]]
* Jossed, he's the BigBad just like he was in the first movie.

[[WMG: The Universal Remote Control will appear in the sequel.]]
* Jossed.

[[WMG: The Evil Camera will appear in the sequel.]]
* Jossed.

[[WMG: Stine and Aunt Lorraine will have broken up by the sequel.]]
Given that Hannah is more or less Stine's adopted daughter and Zach is related to Aunt Lorraine, having the two of them stay together would either force Zach and Hannah to break up or create unfortunate "kissing cousins" vibes.

[[WMG: Stine used luminous ink when he typed up the original manuscript for "The Ghost Next Door".]]
That's why, when Hannah is pulled into the new book at the end, she turns into a cascade of ghostly sparks rather than a torrent of black ink.

* Jossed, the title of the film is "Goosebumps: Halloween".

Dr. Brewer's boss, Mr. Martinez forbid him from making any more plant hybrids, but secretly he reported Brewer's horrific experiments(as well as his kidnapping) to his superiors. The corporate heads decided to use his research to synthesize human and dog DNA for their alternative-child bearing project and had each couple swear to keep their child's real origins confidential.

[[WMG: Spidey and Mr.Chameleon are linked somehow]]

Jossed, the title of the film is "Goosebumps: Halloween".

And for Goosebumps Gold to have been planned for a whole year later. After all, when 1988 never existed, you don't find that many twelve year old protagonists in 2000.

More or less the same things that happened in the main Goosebumps univers happened there, too, but they happened much later and some (like, The Haunted Mask II) didn't happen at all. Some of the reprints share this universe, like the version of The Cuckoo Clock of Doom where the year that gets erased is 1998 instead of 1988.

* Except of course when the stories actually are scary, right? FridgeHorror is quite common. The earlier stories are more of the type with an emphasis on direct horror. And there are the CYOA "Give Yourself Goosebumps" that in the same book may be a parody with one ending, a subversion with another, a double-subverted discussed parody that then subverts its parody nature by becoming a GenreSavvy ending...and even just a couple endings that are played perfectly straight. Not to mention the use of ghostwriters, meaning canonical dissonance.
* Who ever said horror parody can't be scary? Let's remember ''Scream'' is both horror parody and scary horror film.

She fits the description of Sarah a lot better along with being perfectly opaque, unlike see-through Della. And the surface looks like clammy cold white skin more than bone. Perhaps Sarah was killed by the snake, her body dumped in the lake to hide the evidence, but whatever magic was in the lake kept her from decomposing too much and somehow her soul stayed with her body/corpse and we got what we see on the cover today. As a result, she'll either be NightmareFuel, fetish fuel, or perhaps just CreepySexy[=/=]UglyCute in her own way.

The creator of the Masked Mutant is psychically tuned to the Mutant's universe, what he thought was his imagination was actually events that really happened. The Masked Mutant created an interdimensional portal which sent him to Skipper's world, via the comic book.

[[WMG: The body-switch agency in "Why I'm Afraid of Bees" does actually illegal experiments with humans.]]
The reason there is no money involved is that they just want to test the switching method to make money later on. Of course this is forbidden, so they aim on kids who are naive enough not to ask and of course don't ask for their parent's permission.

The wizard character created a reality warping card game and book which sucks unsuspecting individuals inside when they start to play the card game, and when it reaches a certain point, he gives the card and book set to someone else to keep the story going. The book gets longer or shorter depending on how many people are inside and whether or not they survive. For no other reason than ForTheEvulz.

[[WMG: Wally is actually Mr. Wood.]]

In ''Slappy's Nightmare'', another dummy, Wally, is introduced as his twin for Jimmy O'James to use for his show while Slappy tries to learn AnAesop about doing something nice for a change. Same cold blue eyes, same expression, looks exactly like him, except his hair color is ''never'' mentioned. In the first book, aside from their different outfits and the trademark chip on Slappy's lip, the only thing that could differentiate them otherwise is their hair color. Slappy is a brunette; Mr. Wood is a redhead. Therefore, it is possible that it's the same dummy, different name (and his brief appearance can be due to either the ''Goosebumps 2000'' books being a separate series, or [[spoiler:the AllJustADream ending]]).

[[WMG: Slappy is a redhead in the show because the puppet was really intended to be Mr. Wood.]]

As noted above, Mr. Wood is a redhead, and Slappy is a brunette. Note that there has never been an episode made for ''Night of the Living Dummy''; it just starts with the second book. I have yet to find confirmation, but it's possible that there was meant to be an episode for the first book, but it was cancelled for some reason (possibly because Mr. Wood is notably the more violent twin), and the puppet built to be Mr. Wood was just recycled as Slappy. The creators of the show were just too lazy to give it a quick paint job to be more accurate to the book.

''Camp Nightmare'' takes place in the future, where humanity has finally become aware of these dangers, and hyperspace travel to alternate earths is accessible. Camps such as Nightmoon are organized so children can prepare to look for a better world.

Dr. Brewer's boss, Mr. Martinez forbid him from making anymore plant-hybrids, but secretly he reported Brewer's horrific experiments(as well as his kidnapping) to his superiors. The corporate heads decided to use his research to synthesize human and dog DNA for their alternative-child bearing project,and had each couple swear to keep their child's real origins confidential.

In this case, the substance merged the snails and Jelly, as well as endowed it with budding PsychicPowers, similar to Dr.Rockwell and the Rat King. His existence was never revealed to the public since undercover Kraang agents carried away his body.

Or alternately, [[spoiler:since the power was in Zackie's mind, not the typewriter]], he was born from the imagination of another lightning-strike victim.

Think about it. He knows full well he's a comic character created to appease a certain youth demographic, and he's not happy because he has no real control over his life. When the Mutant confronts the boy and reveals he'll have to kill him, he shows signs of remorse, even apologizing. The reason he targeted Skipper in the first place was because he knew the villain's weakness-why wouldn't he know that himself? His plan was to scan the kid into the comic world, fake his death, and then run free in real life while Skipper became his successor.

[[WMG:Both of the origin stories for Monster Blood are true.]]

The IDW comics reveal that Sarabeth had a granddaughter named Veruca Curry whose just as skilled in animation magic as herself, and [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes still has fond memories of her Grandma.]] It's not that hard to imagine that Veruca's parents were enraged by Sarabeth's demise in the first book and worked behind the scenes to destroy Evan and Andy with the very thing that killed her.

His partnership with Susan apparently worked out so well that he grew to prefer working with young girls.

The ''real'' Creep leaders had been observing that school for some time, and concluded that Ricky would be the perfect candidate to forward their secret invasion, since they needed a fairly intelligent, yet deeply bitter and troubled kid who'd be easily swayed to the dark side. They then planted [[TheHeavy Jared, Wart, Brenda, and David]] there(who'd be far too gullible, blindly loyal, and uncharismatic to lead themselves) and encouraged them to make life as miserable as possible for him, which would lead to him doing something drastic that "ousted" him as their commander. As what happens to every place touched by the Creeps, Ricky would soon kickstart the school's assimilation into a growing army, [[UnwittingPawn all under the impression that he was their true leader.]]

He turns into ink. Self explanatory. 'Nuff said. Of course, he's probably a different breed from the Toons in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', considering that the comic book characters in this story ''can'' be hurt by things other than Dip.

[[WMG: The Shopkeeper from ''Haunted Mask'' and Dr. Brewer are [[Manga/FullMetalAlchemist alchemists]],with the Unloved/mutant plants being Homunculi/Chimeras]]
How else would they be able to create life so easily? Also,the Shopkeeper's disfigured face and the real Dr. Brewer's transformation into a flower? Truth's idea of a joke.

So in the story that we know, [[spoiler: Michael as a baby accidentally knocks of the year 1988 off the clock, making Tara cease to exist because that's her birth year.]] Well, that's according to the 1995 print of the book. According to the 2003 reprint, Tara was born in 1996. Why? That's because, at the end of the 1995 print, she is sent into an alternate universe where Mr. and Ms. Webster gave birth to a daughter in 1996 instead of 1988. At the end of that book, she is sent to ''yet another'' alternate universe where Mr. and Ms. Webster now gave birth to a daughter in ''2008'' thus explaining the events of the 2015 e-book.

There's no indication that the book is set in the present day (or what was the present day when the book came out), in fact there's enough TotallyRadical elements to indicate the story is set around 1980, most notably how the game that all the kids love is a late 70's/early 80's style coin-op arcade game.

* They are both people who make magical evil cameras (Ok Spidey didn't intend to make his camera evil but maybe Chameleon sabotaged it some how)

** Billy and Sheena are renowned marine biologists who founded the "Deep Foundation", which seeks to protect endangered and rare sea-life from threats both man-made and supernatural.

** Ricky Beamer, thanks to his newfound power, has become the CEO of a seemingly charitable organization that takes in homeless youth, but in truth this is a front to amass more young hosts for the Creeps to infest. He might even be the villain of a future story arc.

* Jossed, The Masked Mutant does not appear as any one of the protagonists [[spoiler:but Hannah is from "The Ghost Next Door"]]

* Considering she's Zach's next door neighbor, she could be Hannah, the main character from book #10, ''The Ghost Next Door''.
** [[spoiler:Confirmed, she is the girl from "The Ghost Next Door"]]

[[WMG:Some of the monsters will be on the heroes' side.]]
Quite a few from the series are relatively non-malicious,and some books have supernatural entities as the protagonists(Ghost next Door,My Hairiest Adventure,How I Learned To Fly).

[[WMG:The Jack Black portrayed Stine is an impostor.]]
Besides the whole "magic manuscripts" business and his fictional daughter,the ''real'' R.L Stine has been confirmed for a cameo. To elaborate, it could be he's really the Masked Mutant, who can somehow cross into reality. He may have escaped from his book, usurped Stine's identity, taken on Hannah from Ghost Next Door as a "daughter" and eventually tricked Zach into unlocking the books so he could gather a monster army.
* Jossed, [[spoiler:R.L. Stine plays [[Creator/JackBlack "Mr. Black"]] [[CelebrityParadox a drama teacher.]]]]

[[WMG:Some HiddenVillain manipulated Zach into finding the manuscripts.]]

[[WMG:A similar thing happened with Creator/RodSerling, with the recordings of his scripts containing the monstrosities (physical and moral) of his works.]]
* See the Twilight Zone episode "A World of his Own"

[[WMG:The Blob that Ate Everything isn't what Stine says it is.]]
When Stine, Hannah, and the other two [[spoiler:run out the Funhouse]], Stine mentions that it's "The Blob that Ate Everything". For hardcore fans of Goosebumps, The Blob that Ate Everything has a face, which leads fans to mention that the monster Stine faces, is Monsterblood.

[[WMG:R. L. Stine isn't human.]]
With the ''real'' R. L. Stine making a cameo [[spoiler:as "Mr. Black"]], it is theorized that Creator/JackBlack's Stein, is really a written character, guarding the manuscripts in case the monsters from the manuscripts escape from them (and they do), and he can put them back.
* Slappy hints to Stine at the theater, that he "created him, or is it the other way around?". Noting that Stine, may have been written like the rest of the characters.

[[WMG:Stein's typewriter, is The Haunted Typewriter]]
The plot in itself is not only related to "The Blob that Ate Everything", but is also related to the intro sequence in the show that shows Stine's manuscript pages flying out of the suitcase and bringing all the fictional stories to life. Meaning that this entire plot is totally related to Goosebumps.

They'll be bullied and alone, like Stine was, but they'll find solace in the ''Goosebumps'' books. They'll be able to bring the monsters out of the books, no manuscript or typewriter required, and control them to send them against their enemies.

Considering how quite a few of the monsters(and non-human protagonists) were portrayed in a sympathetic light, and how many are missing from Slappy's mob, they may be living in secret across the country with Stine keeping watch on them. Some of them might be laying low out of fear(The Beasts,Plant-Brewer), respect(The Masked Mutant,Clarissa,) or because they look up to him like a father, similar to Slappy and Hannah (Erin and Marty, The Sadler ghosts, Della, Keith).
* Confirmed in a way. [[spoiler:Stine accidentally left the Invisible Boy out of the new story. He and Hannah are the only confirmed monsters to still be in the real world.]]

Jossed, the title of the film is "Goosebumps: Horrorland".

[[WMG: The Hannah from the end of the movie is actually the Masked Mutant.]]

She fits the description of Sarah a lot better along with being perfectly opaque, unlike see-through Della. And the surface looks like clammy cold white skin more than bone. Perhaps Sarah was killed by the snake, her body dumped in the lake to hide the evidence, but whatever magic was in the lake kept her from decomposing too much and somehow her soul stayed with her body/corpse and we got what we see on the cover today. As a result, she'll either be NightmareFuel, fetish fuel, or perhaps just CreepySexy/UglyCute in her own way.
* Wouldn’t Sarah have turned into a ghost like Della when she got bit by a snake?

The creator of the Masked Mutant is psychically tuned to the Mutant's universe, what he thought was his imagination was actually events that really happened. The Masked Mutant created an interdimensional portal which sent him to Skipper's world.

* [[WMG: Should the comics continue, we'll eventually get appearances of past protagonists as adults.]]

[[WMG: Fans only love Andy so much because of Blogger Beware.]]
It's understandable that fans hate Evan for telling his class about the monster blood and seriously expecting them to believe it, but it seems strange that Andy doesn’t get nearly as much hate and is even one of the most adored Goosebumps characters even though she acts even more stupidly in the same book by feeding the monster blood to Cuddles the hamster after expressly promising Evan not to, not to mention her thinking the blue monster blood in the fourth book is ''cute'' and somehow forgetting that it nearly killed her and Evan in the previous books. It’s also strange how fans regularly unfairly blame Evan for continuously bringing back the monster blood and wanting to use it when it’s actually Andy who does that. Sure, she has more personality and is more fun than Evan, but there are plenty of Goosebumps best friend characters with a sense of humor and more personality than the protagonist (the first ones that come to mind are Zeke from ''Phantom of the Auditorium'' and Bird from ''Say Cheese and Die''), yet none of them get nearly as much love. So it can reasonably be chalked up to people mindlessly agreeing with all of Troy Steele's opinions, and it can also explain why Evan gets unfairly blamed for Andy's actions.

** Evan and Andy are a married couple and will usually pop up as RecurringExtras, with Evan still frustrated that no one believes his Monster Blood stories.