History WMG / MeetTheRobinsons

It's possible the reason she looks so feminine is because of future technology that can change a person's appearance more drastically. Unfortunately, it can't change a person's voice, and she probably had to go for good-old-fashioned voice training.

* When the RippleEffect happens around Lewis, the first time machine is intact, rendering it immune to time-alterations (and since Lewis is from the past, nothing happens to him, likely Wilbur [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture ensuring]] if he's RetGone, Lewis will take his place to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong). The second time machine is left in the present in its invisible state, but if left abandoned, it dissolves into CessationOfExistence.

At first, it seems like the whole Petunia thing is just another weird quirk of the Robinsons, but what if it's more than that? This ''is'' the future after all; maybe Fritz had no luck in the dating world, so Cornelius just built him a robotic wife. Why is she a puppet, you ask? Well, maybe she was actually a prototype that went wrong (explaining the puppet size and her snarky personality) but Fritz was actually into that, so he kept her. She was also a UterineReplicator, which explains how she could have children.

At the very end of the movie, Lucille mentions her ride hasn't arrived yet, and we don't know where she was going after that. Perhaps they were going to the orphanage?

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Bud and Lucille]] were the couple that was going to interview Lewis on the day of the science fair. ]]
At the very end of the movie, [[spoiler: Past!Lucille]] mentions her ride hasn't arrived yet, and we don't know where she was going after that.

The younger you are, the harder it is for long term memories to form, so the Memory Scanner would've either shown nothing or a very fuzzy picture. However, even if a clear picture developed on the Scanner, all Lewis would have to go on would be a face, one that's probably aged in a dozen years. He really wouldn't have much to go on.

* Slightly less weird possibility: The kids are adopted.

The younger you are, the harder it is for long term memories to form, so Memory would've either shown nothing or a very fuzzy picture. However, even if a clear picture developed on the Scanner, all Lewis would have to go on would be a face, one thats probably aged in a dozen years. He really wouldn't have much to go on.

* Bud is the [[spoiler: adoptive father of Lewis.]] Would that make them related, in a way?

Both their families have an apparently genetic cowlick, and Fran has siblings eliminating the possibility that she is his daughter.

** She could've just been a jerk and Lewis is better off without her. He may have gotten lucky that she put in enough effort to abandon him at an orphanage- otherwise, [[FridgeHorror who knows where she might have left him]]? But I guess we'll never know because Keep Moving Forward.
** Maybe the woman who dropped him off at the orphanage wasn't his mother at all. She could have been his big sister who was unequipped to care for him after their parents died, or who'd grown up suffering their cruel parents' abuse and didn't want her little brother to face the same misery.

[[WMG: Franny is Buds granddaughter.]]
Both of their families have an apparently genetic cowlick.

Wilbur wears a black tee-shirt with the lightning-on-blue-circle emblem of Captain Time Travel. That superhero was on the lunchbox that Lewis used to house his brain scanner controls. Why would a rebellious teenager wear a shirt inspired by a character that was popular in his father's youth? Perhaps when Wilbur grew up he was allowed to use the time machine, and he went back to the old days to become a superhero for a while.

However, Astro Boy takes place decades, or even a century or two, later. In this time, the time machines Cornelius invented were destroyed in some manner, and his company gets a name change through financial takeover or gets overshadowed by another company headed by a brilliant GadgeteerGenius.

[[WMG:The movie is set in the same universe as ''PowerRangers''.]]

And strengthening the above theory, the Time Continuum Task Force could be the "extended" name of the [[PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force Police]].

[[WMG: The movie takes place in the same universe as AstroBoy.]]

[[MyOwnGrandpa And he's his own grandfather.]] Some time after the events of the film, Franny and Cornelius have another baby but can't keep it for some reason. Franny says she's going to put it up for adoption and Cornelius goes along with it, since he was adopted and turned out pretty well. Franny decides she could never live with wondering if some child walking down the street was the child she gave up. She reasons that if she brings the child to the past, he'll be an adult by the time she encounters him after having made the decision and it'll be easier then, so she secretly borrows one of the machines. Knowing the approximate time Cornelius was adopted (but not which orphanage he came from), she reasons there's a better chance of the baby getting adopted at that point, travels back to then and chooses what looks like the best (or at least, most convenient- it is raining, after all) orphange she can find. All this from the fact that the studio used Franny's basic character model and put a cloak on it to create Lewis's mom.

[[ImMyOwnGrandpa And he's his own grandfather.]] Some time after the events of the film, Franny and Cornelius have another baby but can't keep it for some reason. Franny says she's going to put it up for adoption and Cornelius goes along with it, since he was adopted and turned out pretty well. Franny decides she could never live with wondering if some child walking down the street was the child she gave up. She reasons that if she brings the child to the past, he'll be an adult by the time she encounters him after having made the decision and it'll be easier then, so she secretly borrows one of the machines. Knowing the approximate time Cornelius was adopted (but not which orphanage he came from), she reasons there's a better chance of the baby getting adopted at that point, travels back to then and chooses what looks like the best (or at least, most convenient- it is raining, after all) orphange she can find. All this from the fact that the studio used Franny's basic character model and put a cloak on it to create Lewis's mom.