History WMG / Monster

Why not? After all they’re both ''insanely'' good at impersonating people and are not only [[TheChessmaster cunning]] and [[BadassBookworm well read]] and utterly [[TheUnfettered ruthless]]. Also neither seem to be overly fond of their own [[{{Unperson}} identity]] and also put the one person they care about through copious amounts of [[BreakTheCutie grief]]…

* And for the duration of his coma, he is [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Jesus in purgatory]] taking the form of [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lord]] [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi Suzumiya]].

[[WMG:[[UpToEleven Everybody]] is Johan.]]

[[AC:Anime/{{Monster}}]]

[[WMG: Centuries after the event of the show the descendants of the main cast will [[Anime/LegendofGalacticHeroes due battle and decide the fate of the galaxy.]] ]]

This would also explain why we get treated to [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a billion other characters]] and their little subplots and {{Freudian Excuse}}s throughout the story. Just other folks dealing with their monsters.

He was playing the game that Martin (the CreepyChild, not the noir-ish ganger who befriends Eva) was trying to get Dieter to play: keep putting yourself in increasingly dangerous situations to see if you win (surivive) or lose (die). As Johan sees it, the more he wins the game, the more he becomes something...[[TheUbermensch far grander than an ordinary human]], something that would know no fear or remorse (and therefore know no emotional trauma either). His horrible past has utterly broken him (we've seen how he reacted to looking at that picture book) and becoming something beyond human is his way of crafting a new identity and utterly forget his past. He never wanted to die, but he kept increasing the odds that he would so that he'd keep "ascending" to this new nature/identity with each game.

In the end, when Tenma tells Johan his real name, that's him affirming his shadow's existence and telling himself that his parents loved him, and that he's still worthy of love. However, when Johan asks which child was unwanted, it still shows doubt on Tenma's part. He doesn't know if the “bad child” (Johan) was truly loved, or if the “good child” (Nina) simply suffered for no reason.

Now, how does ''Another Monster'' figure into this? [[LampshadeHanging Well, I didn't say that this was a perfect theory. Half of this shit on this page is pure crack and this WMG no different]]. But I had you going there, didn't I?

In the end, when Tenma tells Johan his real name, that's him affirming his shadow's existence and telling himself that his parents loved him, and is still worthy of love. However, when Johan asks which child was unwanted, it still shows doubt on Tenma's part. He doesn't know if the “bad child” (Johan) was truly loved, or if the “good child” (Nina) simply suffered for no reason.

Essentially Yang Wen-li is a distant descendant of Tenma, while Reinhard von Lohengramm is either descended from Nina or Johan and Paul von Oberstein is a descendant of Lunge.

* Er, doesn't this deconstruct FreudianExcuse moves about as much as "''Some'' heavy smokers live to a ripe healthy old age" plus {{Anvilicious}} invocations of "free will" deconstructs "Tobacco is carcinogenic and addictive"? Leaving aside that [[InTheBlood "nature" as opposed to "nurture"]] approaches to evil hardly get away from determinism...

[[WMG:''Monster'' takes place in the same universe as ''Manga/KamikazeKaitouJeanne''.]]

[[WMG: Johan and Nina are actually [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Nation-tans]] representing East and West Germany, respectively.]]

Because it [[TropeExampleLaws it had to be done]].

[[WMG: Monster takes place in the same universe as SamAndMax]]

[[WMG: Grimmer is a [[KingdomHearts Nobody]].]]

** Or unless he's a TimeLord. But that's a whole other page...

[[WMG: After the end of Monster, Johan escapes the hospital and trades his German nationality for Romanian citizenship. His new name? [[LeftBehind Nicolae Carpathia.]]]]

[[WMG: Johan is SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from the Film/TheDarkKnight]]