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[WMG: The "[[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Village]]" is really a trial run of the dreamscape.]]

Now that Cobb has implanted the idea of Mr. Charles, head of subconscious security, into Fischer's mind, Fischer will subconsciously create a real Mr. Charles if his mind is ever threatened again as one of his defensive projections. This projection will still look like Leonardo DiCaprio.

** At the end will Ellen Page fall in love with a huge gross nerdy guy?

[[WMG: Ellen Page's Character in ''the Mirror'' SNL Digital Short is Ariadne in a recursive dream]]

** Ellen Page and Marion Cottiard look alike to you?

* Keep in mind that Cobb's totem used to belong to '''Mal'''. He only made a guess as to how it worked, assuming she never told him how. Mal must've been convinced that she was dreaming after she realized that either (a: her totem suddenly worked differently, (b: manipulated the dream world using lucid dreaming techniques, or (c: noticed everyone else staring at her.

* Keep In mind that Cobb's totemalso used to be '''Mal's''' totem. He only made a guess as to how it worked, assuming she never told him how. Mal must've been convinced that she was dreaming after she realized that either (a her totem suddenly worked differently, (b manipulated the dream world using lucid dreaming techniques, or (c noticed everyone else staring at her.

He incepted the idea of him being deserving of winning an Oscar into the vast majority of humans. Christopher Nolan is in on the con and they used the movie to perform the inception.

So here's what I'm thinking. What we are looking at is a heavily altered plot destined for part of the Dark Knight Trilogy, with the focus changed to the {{Villain Protagonist}}, Dr. Hugo Strange. In Inception, Cobb is trying to stop a man from maintaining his father's legacy/global empire. In the original version, it was Hugo Strange mounting a full on assault on Bruce Wayne's psyche, trying to stop him from continuing as Batman, so that Strange could take over. Bruce's psyche is extremely dangerous though. Training From the League of Assassins has allowed him to weaponize his subconscious, meaning that Strange and his team (probably sparser in the original story) are facing armed gunmen. Since they aren't actually going to kill the team, I think it's reasonable to assume they could be in Batman's mind, although they might have been ninjas in the original, given how he hates guns. At the ending, instead of [[spoiler: his dying father persuading Fischer to abandon the conglomeration]], the vault would have contained Bruce's dying parents, begging him to abandon his quest of justice. And of course, you'd think Batman's falling for it, until he disappears/grabs the dying pair and begins going full Batman on the pair [[spoiler: of shapeshifting imposters, with Strange playing his father]], because you think he's been falling for it, but he's realized this is a psychic attack for a good part of the movie. The studios rejected this plot as part 3 of the Dark Knight Trilogy as just being too abstract and wild, but let Nolan use it for a different movie he wanted to make. I have no evidence for this whatsoever, and there's a good chance that Nolan came up with the story for Inception long before he Knew he'd get to make the Dark Knight series. That said, the fact that Inception is about a psychologically based full on assault on an unexpectedly (and seemingly impossibly) prepared multi-billionaire suggests that maybe, just maybe, the whole story was originally proposed as a finale for {{Film/The Dark Knight Saga}}, and the only way Nolan would get to make the move he wanted was to claim that the idea was older than reality, to avoid plagiarism claims (apparently the idea was used in an old Uncle Scrooge comic book, seriously).

[[WMG: Robert Fischer would become [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Jonathan Crane]].]]

* Alternately, ''Inception'' takes place in the 8 years between, or prior to ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga''.

As discussed in the ItJustBugsMe section, the "Arthur has a couple of minutes" was actually exaggerating how much time he had. He actually came up with the zero-gravity kick in less time than that. And let's not forgot the major beat-down he laid on all of Fischer's security throughout the hotel level. So, brilliant tactician and intimidating combatant in a movie directed by Creator/ChristopherNolan? Obviously Batman. He's probably training himself in dream technology in case he ever has to use it to save Gotham or someone tries to use it against him.

** The events of the day after the party probably resembled those of TheHangover closely. This troper would now like to see TheHangover remade with the actors and characters from Inception.

This is because he is a dream of Mike, and is Jowee (you know, from DrawnToLife?) after some mental twisting. Mal, who is really Mari, also went through some mind twisting, but still knew she was in a dream. She killed herself because she didn't know she was a dream as well. Miles is also Miles from Drawn to Life, and may or may not know about him. I'm not sure about the other characters, other then that Mike is one of the few (if not the only) real people in the movie, and Wilfre was behind the Mental twisting.

[[WMG: The ending of {{Ico}} takes place in Limbo.]]

[[WMG: Cobb will later take a trip to [[EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind Lacuna, Inc.]]]]

[[WMG: Inception and WilliamGibson's The Sprawl trilogy are in the same universe]]

[[WMG: Inception is set in the same world as [[RogerZelazny Roger Zelanzy's]] The Dream Shaper/He Who Shapes]]

[[WMG: The real world (level 0) of ''{{Inception}}'' is the dream world of ''Film/TheMatrix''.]]
The machines of ''Film/TheMatrix'' found that once they were able to instill a convincing dream-world within a large population of human drones, to instill additional layers of dreams is a simple matter of applying the basic dreaming process recursively. The original vision of ''Film/TheMatrix'' was that the machines utilize collective human brainpower to create a massive supercomputer distributed among many billion "nodes", i.e. human minds -- not that they harvested humans for their energy output, as Morpheus explains in the film. As Cobb explained in ''{{Inception}}'', when we dream, we use our brainpower more fully. The machines realized the advantages of this for their purposes and began to provide people with some degree of control over this process, with the one restriction that they cannot wake up from the Matrix without Matrix-external assistance. With even a small handful of people delving deeply through successive dream layers, those individuals' computational power increased by many orders of magnitude -- ten people manipulating their own dreams have the computational power of ten '''''billion''''' people who never go further than level 1.

[[WMG: {{Inception}} takes place in the same world as Franchise/SilentHill, and it's actually an insane asylum.]]

[[WMG: {{Inception}} is the TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Best End of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzb_s83jdU Alice Human Sacrifice]]]]

[[WMG: All of Leonardo [=DiCaprio=]'s non-{{Inception}} roles are his Dominic Cobb character being part of an Inception.]]

[[WMG: Mal is basically [[SilentHill Pyramid Head]].]]

[[WMG: {{Inception}} takes place in the same world as SilentHill, and it's actually an insane asylum.]]

* You might want to read some Creator/PhilipKDick (anything from ''VALIS'' on) and Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'' if you want your head messed with some more.

Because [[{{Instrumentality}} a shared dream world where you can warp reality, changing the way people think]], a collapsed civilization, and randomly waking up on abandoned beaches doesn't leave a lot of room for other explanations.

[[WMG: Leonardo DiCapriowon his Oscar through inception]]

[[WMG: Leonardo DiCaprio never won his Oscar through inception]]

For those who don't get why the guy wouldn't just give Cobb a cup of coffee: it could be possible the reason why the guy is arguing with Cobb is because he's not a waiter, he's a customer and Cobb is in his seat at the table. It'd be like going out to a restaurant with friends, going to the restroom and coming back to find a stranger sitting in your seat and asking you to take an order for a burger, wouldn't it?

* And every "copy" of this movie is actually a copy of TheLastAirbender. Hey, they had to sell the movie somehow...

I leave it up to Wiki Magic to spell out who was being incepted and for what purpose in each of those other films.

[[WMG: Inception is a semi-sequel to {{Paprika}}]]

[[WMG: The world of {{Inception}} and the world of GIJoeTheRiseofCobra are the same.]]