History WMG / HomeAlone

* This would explain continuity descrepancies and the appearance of technology not around in 91 or 92.

She grew out of her former awkward self and did eventually run away from Shermer. Allison began to enjoy her makeover done by Claire, deciding to change her name, and started to upkeep it and got a job at an airport as a clerk.

She grew out of her former awkward self and did eventually run away from Shermer. Allison began to enjoy her makeover done by Claire, and started to upkeep it and got a job at an airport as a clerk.

[[WMG: The airport worker Kevin talks to in ''Home Alone 2'' is Allison from ''The Breakfast Club''.]]

* Alternatively, the red-headed Manager gave them the room and room service on her dime due to her and her staff's mistakes, in hopes of keeping Trump from discovering the incompetency of the staff.

[[WMG: John Candy's character is Satan.]]

[[WMG: Alternatively to the above, John Candy's character is actually an angel.]]
Alternatively, John Candy's character and his group of Polka players were actually angels and were actually on their way to Milwaukee to perform a mission from God. If you watch the scene where Kate says she would sell her soul to the Devil himself to get home, the way he reacts seems like he's disgusted at the thought that she would sell her soul to the Devil. So, before the Devil had a chance to show up and make an offer, he offers Kate a lift in the van. The stories he tells about the other players, he makes up the backstories for them to make Kate feel better about the situation she was in because she blamed herself for leaving Kevin at home, and it appears to help her.

* The rumors that Old Man Marley was a SerialKiller originated from Buzz and/or others in his generation recalling past coverage of the "Butcher of Woodside," and noticing [[CastingGag his resemblance]] to the similarly reclusive and eccentric Old Man Marley. Then the details of the case got mixed up in the process, and the UrbanLegend was contrived about the "South Bend Shovel-Slayer" murdering his family and neighbors in 1958 and preserving their bodies with salt.

* The rumors that Old Man Marley was a SerialKiller originated from Buzz and/or others in his generation recalling past coverage of the "Butcher of Woodside," and noticing his resemblance to the similarly reclusive and eccentric Old Man Marley. Then the details of the case got mixed up in the process, and the UrbanLegend was contrived about the "South Bend Shovel-Slayer" murdering his family and neighbors in 1958 and preserving their bodies with salt.

The movie looks like it would have been made during UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, where it is highly unlikely that an AxCrazy killer like Johnny would have been allowed to pull a KarmaHoudini. A prequel might have been a way to bring the character back in spite of that though.

Perhaps there really was a South Bend Shovel Slayer but it was {{Misblamed}} on Marley due to his family arguement. The roaring from the basement may be a residual haunting of a murder that took place in the basement but isn't spoken of due to its brutality.

[[http://www.mandatory.com/2013/07/16/conspiracy-uncle-frank-was-behind-everything-in-home-alone/ Explained in detail here]]. Considering what an asshole and a tightwad he is, it wouldn't be surprising.

** Kevin's family's generally dismissive attitude towards him (save his mother) makes sense if he's become some sort of resentful poltergeist who can't accept that he's died (for whatever reason) so young.

** Notice how the first two times Kevin gets dressed up and attempts to leave the property, Old Man Marley appears and scares him into returning to the house, right as he reaches the property line. Perhaps Old Man Marley is some of angel or good spirit, protecting Kevin from harm that ''can'' befall him until he accepts his fate and moves on. (Sprinkling salt on the sidewalk could, under this theory, be seen as some sort of attempt to protect Kevin).

** Outside of Kevin and the house, there's Kate's conversation with Gus on the van. She asks him if he's ever left his kid alone; he said he did it once, all day, in a funeral parlor.[[note]]implying his child died[[/note]] She then says they shouldn't talk about this; he reminds her that ''she'' brought it up, and she says she's sorry. Perhaps the reason she doesn't want to talk about this is that Kevin is actually dead as well.

Seriously, many of the traps Kevin sets in the first two films would be lethal or crippling to anyone who doesn't have Wolverine's healing factor from the X-Men: paint cans to the head, bricks to the head, irons to the face, kerosene explosions, falls from 2 stories or more, electrocution, being crushed by heavy objects, and the list goes on. If Harry and Marv were mere mortals, they'd both be dead by the end of the first movie or would be in wheelchairs in the sequel.

[[WMG: Kevin is a distant cousin of [[ScoobyDoo Fred Jones]]]]

* This can even serve to explain the [[ContinuitySnarl continuity errors]] in the fourth film; we already established that ComicBook/TheJoker has a MultipleChoicePast, so what we see as the fourth film could actually be [[UnreliableNarrator a warped retelling of the first two films]], or at least, the fourth film ''did'' happen, [[BroadStrokes but not as shown]]; the contradictions to the first two films are more because we're seeing it through his perspective, and we've already established that [[{{Understatement}} he's not very well in the head]].

* The rumors that Old Man Marley was a SerialKiller originated from Buzz and/or others in his age group recalling past coverage of the "Butcher of Woodside," and noticing his resemblance to the similarly reclusive and eccentric Old Man Marley. Then the details of the case got mixed up in the process, and the UrbanLegend was contrived about the "South Bend Shovel-Slayer" murdering his family and neighbors in 1958 and preserving their bodies with salt.

* The rumors that Old Man Marley was a SerialKiller originated from Buzz and/or others in his age group recalling past coverage of the "Butcher of Woodside," and noticing his resemblance to the similarly reclusive and eccentric Old Man Marley. Then the details of the case got mixed up in the process, and the urban legend was contrived about the "South Bend Shovel-Slayer" murdering his family and neighbors in 1958 and preserving their bodies in salt.