Line #3 Fanon/LiveActionFilms


1	* Many viewers of ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' believe [[spoiler:Eywa is manipulating ''both'' sides of the conflict to achieve her ends of getting rid of the RDA.]] This is based on absolutely no canonical evidence whatsoever. She doesn't even [[spoiler:visibly interfere until Jake takes some time to explain the situation to her, and the Na'vi are about to ''lose'' their decisive battle, when she could've just ZergRush'd the RDA at about any time.]]
2	* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'': A popular theory among fans is that Donnie is Walter's imaginary friend. This doesn't make much sense, as the Dude also acknowledges him a few times during the movie, both characters [[spoiler:go to a funeral home after he dies]], and other characters (including the Stranger, the Jesus, and Gary the bowling alley bartender) acknowledge him as well.
3	* In ''Franchise/BillAndTed'' fanfics, if either of boys' biological mothers' whereabouts are mentioned, typically Bill's left him and his father, and Ted's mom is dead, going along with the fanfic trend of making him [[TheWoobie a Woobie]].
4	* In ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' fanon, it's generally agreed that Connor is the older twin.
5	* ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'': A lot of fans assume that Andy got very close to Miranda's daughters, Caroline and Cassidy, to the point that she is one of only two people, along with Miranda, who can tell the two apart. This is despite there being very little evidence of it in the actual film.
6	* Some fans like to put both ''Film/EventHorizon'' and ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe. In ''Event Horizon'''s case, it's quite plausible to put the film sometime in the Dark Age of Technology, and the events line up well with everything we know about the Warp.
7	* ''Film/FightClub''
8	** A surprisingly large number of people sincerely believe that the name of Edward Norton's character is Jack. In fact -- and this is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the film -- his true name is [[spoiler: never revealed, although an argument can be made that it is, in fact, Tyler Durden.]] Notably, the novel is a bit more unambiguous about the last point, as it includes a brief scene after TheReveal where the Narrator [[spoiler:shows his driver's license to Marla to prove that "Tyler Durden" isn't his real name]]. The film called him Jack in the script and behind the scenes, but only as a nod to [[spoiler:the ''Reader's Digest'' articles written by an organ in first person discussed in the film]].
9	** Another popular theory is that ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' is the prequel to Fight Club, with the Narrator being an older Calvin, Marla as Susie, Bob being an older Moe trying to be TheAtoner, and [[spoiler:Tyler as a vengeful reincarnation of Hobbes.]]
10	* ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' includes a memorable scene where the camp counselors comfort a little girl named Nancy after she's woken up by a nightmare in the middle of the night. Since then, many fans have latched onto the theory that Nancy was actually being menaced by [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] in her dreams, and that the scene was meant to hint that Freddy and Jason Voorhees exist in the same universe. This was seemingly bolstered by the fact that "Nancy" was the name of the protagonist of the original ''[[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'', and that the producers of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' movies '''were''' planning on a crossover with ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' at the time (they'd initially wanted the crossover to be the next installment after ''Jason Lives'', but had to shelve the idea [[Film/FreddyVsJason until 2003]] because Creator/ParamountPictures and Creator/NewLineCinema [[ScrewedByTheLawyers couldn't work out the rights issues with the two franchises]]). Despite this, the filmmakers denied that the connection was intentional: Nancy was actually [[{{Tuckerization}} named after]] director Tom [=McLoughlin=]'s wife, who also appears in the film as Lizbeth (the counselor who's killed by Jason while driving to Camp Forest Green).
11	* ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'':
12	** Egon and/or Ray as autistic, due to their quirky personalities and, in Ray's case, the fact that his actor is autistic.
13	** Egon as Jewish due to [[JewishAndNerdy the stereotype about nerds being Jewish]], his last name ("Spengler") being common among Jews, and the fact that his actor was Jewish.
14	* ''Film/GlassOnion'': The exact status of Blanc's relationship with his partner Phillip is never specified, only that they're together, but the unanimous consensus among the fandom is that they're married.
15	* Michael Myers, the antagonist of ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'', is believed to have [[spoiler:never dies in either of the two original timelines.]] This means that presumably, he has [[spoiler:survived the end of both ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'' and ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'', the last in each respective timeline.]] The [[Film/Halloween2007 remake]] further suggests that [[spoiler:the filmmakers aren't planning to end either timeline.]] Chris R. Notarile made a fan film based on this theory (which included professional voice actor Creator/TomKane), depicting [[spoiler:Michael Myers' death at age 60, from the rage inside him, as Dr. Loomis predicted in ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers''. It could fit into either timeline]].
16	** Notarile made another fan film, which depicts [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] [[spoiler:captured by Pinhead sometime after his death in ''Film/FreddyVsJason''. He is then tortured by Jason Voorhees, the mind of Michael Myers, and the presumably deceased soul of [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], with Pinhead telling him "Your reign of evil is now over."]] This contradicts ''Comicbook/FreddyVsJasonVsAsh'' and its sequel, but these are an alternate sequel to ''Freddy vs. Jason'' itself; the "main" sequel, ''Film/JasonX'', can't take place after ''Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash 2: Nightmare Warriors'' because [[spoiler: history is altered to prevent Freddy's transformation into a dream demon, thereby preventing him from resurrecting Jason at the end of ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday''.]]
17	* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' fanon:
18	** If Chad is not dating Taylor, he's dating Ryan 99% of the time. Probably has something to do with the [[HoYay sexy baseball scene]] in the second movie. Even fans who don't ship Ryan/Chad assume ''something'' went down in the locker room after that baseball game, not helped by the fact that they're [[SexyShirtSwitch wearing each other's clothes]] in the next scene.
19	** Sharpay often has a cutesy nickname that her mother calls her by, to go with Ryan's "Ducky".
20	* ''Film/TheHobbit'' films inspired a lot of popular headcanons about Dwarvish culture, such as hair-braiding being a serious act that's done only between family members or lovers, dwarves having ridiculously intricate courtship rituals that include elaborate gifts and hair beads, and dwarves [[SingleTargetSexuality falling in love only once in their lifetimes]] with their "[[OneTrueLove One]]".
21	* The fandom for ''Film/{{Inception}}'' has unanimously decided that Eames' totem is a poker chip. This is fleetingly implied in the film but never explicitly stated.
22	* Several ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' fans seem to consider it {{canon}} that Indy becomes immortal following the events of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' after drinking from the Holy Grail. Among other things, this provides a handy explanation for how he survives the infamous fridge-nuking in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', and how he manages to survive into the present day as seen in the framing sequences in ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles''.
23	* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' films gave us [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/figwit Figwit]], the sexy elf from ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]''. He was noticed by fangirls and anyone else who got bored during the Council of Elrond scene; they adopted him and called him "Figwit" as [[FunWithAcronyms an acronym]] for "Frodo is great -- who is that?" He's also played by Bret [=McKenzie=], whom viewers may have recognized from ''Series/FlightOfTheConchords''. As a nod to the fans, he reappered in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' (to much {{squee}}ing), and [=McKenzie=] was given another role in ''Film/TheHobbit'' trilogy, as Elrond's personal herald "Lindir" (meaning "singer" and a minor canon character).
24	* The idea that ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' is a sequel to ''Film/MadMax1'' (with Toecutter surviving his crash and becoming Immortan Joe) and a prequel to ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'' (with Rictus Erectus surviving '''his''' crash and becoming Lord Humungus). {{Jossed}} by the official comics, based on the backstory George Miller created but had no space to film.
25	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' has so much "headcanon" that there's [[http://theavengersheadcanons.tumblr.com/ Avengers a whole site]] dedicated to this trope.
26	** The character Hawkeye, though, attracts the most theories, many still inspired by the mainstream comics. They include that Clint was a CircusBrat with a criminal record (like in his comic backstory), served in the U.S. Army or else some kind of law enforcement division, is a single father with a young child (which was shot down somewhat following ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', is or once was dating (or even married to) [[ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} Bobbi Morse]], that Bobbi Morse is the mother of the aforementioned child, and many more. Some fans of ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'' even invoke the ActorAllusion to suggest that this film is Hawkeye's origin story; both characters are played by Creator/JeremyRenner.
27	** Additionally, the vast majority of fics featuring Black Widow as a major character give her the same backstory as her comics character; [[TheAgeless agelessness]] and all, making her a product of the Red Room, a rough contemporary of Steve, and having a past relationship with the Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, despite their very limited on-screen interactions (though her "Don't you recognise me?" line in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' was pounced on by fans). The latter ship, variously known as Buckytasha and Winter Widow, is tagged on over 4000 fics on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. The canonical Brutasha (Bruce Banner/Natasha Romanov), by contrast, has less than half that number.
28	* ''Film/MakingMrRight': During the third act Dr. Peters claims to have reprogrammed Ulysses; Ulysses even gives a speech where he says that he doesn't like humanity because of the way they interact with each other. Dr. Peters also stops Frankie from seeing Ulysses last time, and Ulysses just stares at her coldly. In the end it's revealed that Ulysses and Dr. Peters have switched places, with Dr. Peters going off into space. Most fans think that Dr. Peters never actually reprogrammed Ulysses and swapped places with him before the press conference, but there is actually nothing in the movie to support this. The movie implies that Dr. Peters undid his reprogramming and decided to switch places with Ulysses after the press conference.
29	* In '' Film/MyOwnPrivateIdaho'' fanon it is generally accepted that Scott is the one who picked up Mike at the end,due to the fact the driver is wearing the same clothes as Scott and in one version of the script it was actually Scott before it was changed to be more ambiguous.
30	* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'': It's widely accepted that Zira and Cornelius coming to the past and Caesar's birth there altered the 'verse's history, greatly speeding up the ape revolution and making it happen much earlier than the one that led to the events of the [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 first film]]. This may also mean that the aftermath of ''Battle'' is different from the one in the original timeline, and that the world might not have been destroyed as it was in ''Beneath''. A "closed loop" theory also suggests that anger at Caesar led to him being erased from ape history later on, leading to the scrolls Zira and Cornelius read having Aldo as the first to say "no".
31	** In the same way, followers of the first theory believe that the new timeline changed The Lawgiver from vengeful and hateful to humans, to tolerant and a promoter of friendship between the two races. Followers of the "closed loop" theory, on the other hand, believe that The Lawgiver's teachings were originally like this, but that they were misinterpreted or altered by [[CorruptChurch the Orangutans]] later on. The fourth film (where The Lawgiver appears) is [[ShrugOfGod intentionally ambiguous]], and ends with a shot of a Caesar statue [[GainaxEnding crying a tear]]. Naturally, the former interpret this as Caesar crying out of joy for succeeding in securing peace, while the latter believe that he cries out of sadness because [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence he knows]] his efforts will fail.
32	* In TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Film/PrinceCaspian'', a geeky boy attempts to flirt with Susan at the train station in the first few minutes of the film. A small group of fans have grown attached to him, calling him Warren.
33	* Most ''Film/PrincessProtectionProgram'' fans seem to agree that Carter and Rosie are at least bisexual, as well as the fact that they developed a mutual attraction to each other. However, due to Rosie's responsibilities to her kingdom, they could never act on it. Though most agree that they at least confessed to each other at some point. The most agreed-upon points after the Homecoming dance or before Rosie's coronation.
34	* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': The producers of the movies gave Adam's surname as Faulkner, but in ''Film/SawV'', he's named as Adam Stanheight on a list of the Jigsaw Killer's potential victims. Fans have reconciled this by saying his full name is Adam Faulkner-Stanheight.
35	* ''Film/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil2022'': In the film, Lady Lesso calls Professor Dovey "princess" in one scene and one scene only and it was meant as an insult, but almost any fan content centered around the two will have Lesso referring to Dovey exclusively as "princess" as an AffectionateNickname. In return, many fans also have Dovey affectionately call Lesso "Nora" (a shortened version of her first name Leonora), despite there being no evidence of that in the film.
36	* ''Film/{{Scream}}'': A lot of fans theorize that Tatum has a twin sister who was absent from Woodsboro during the first movie. This is due to the twin beds in her bedroom and how it would allow for a BackupTwin scenario after her death. It helps that Creator/RoseMcGowan is a supporter of the theory.
37	* Virtually every ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' fan believes that the destruction of Buenos Aires via meteor strike was a FalseFlagOperation by the Federation to justify invading the Arachnids' homeworld (or at least a random natural disaster that they [[BlatantLies falsely blamed on the Arachnids]]). This is never made explicit, but the film seems to at least leave the door open for this interpretation, and it would fit very well with the story's themes.
38	* Many Creator/QuentinTarantino fans theorize that the events of his several films are linked together in some way.
39	** One popular theory is that at least some of the events of ''Film/PulpFiction'' occur on the same day as the bank heist in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''. In particular, the reason why there are no cops around to stop Jules and Vincent while they're driving around covered in blood is that they're too preoccupied with the heist and its disastrous aftermath.
40	** Another theory is that ''Film/PulpFiction'' is a direct sequel to ''Film/ReservoirDogs''. This theory suggests that the the [[{{Macguffin}} mysterious briefcase]] in ''Pulp Fiction'' contains the diamonds from the heist in ''Reservoir Dogs''. This has some basis in fact, as WordOfGod has confirmed that the briefcase was supposed to contain diamonds in the original draft of the script.
41	** The theory that ''Film/KillBill'' is [[ShowWithinAShow an action movie that Mia Wallace starred in during her time as an actress]] -- possibly even a reworked version of her failed ''Fox Force Five'' TV pilot -- has recently caught on with Tarantino fans.
42	* Various explanations for the inconsistencies of how time travel works between the three ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' {{movies}} are fanon. The ''Terminator'' movies (and the [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles TV show]], for example) never state how it works, just that it does.
43	* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': There are a number of fan theories that identify Keyser Soze as any member of the cast you care to name. In the director's commentary, the filmmakers express puzzlement over this phenomenon, saying they felt the end is pretty clear.
44	* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'':
45	** For those who think Oz was AllJustADream, Glinda's real world counterpart is often depicted as a kind schoolteacher of Dorothy's.
46	** Glinda as the true villain of the film, or at minimum not being as innocent as she seems, is a popular fan-theory. Fans find her suspicious, from her appearing right after the Wicked Witch of the South's death to her getting Dorothy to kill the Wicked Witch of the East without telling Dorothy how the Ruby Slippers work. These issues come due to an AdaptationInducedPlotHole resulted from [[CompositeCharacter Glinda adapting two separate characters]], but fan consensus is that she's a morally ambiguous Witch who gets Dorothy to kill her political opponent. Her attitude and demeanor doesn't help the way she looks either.
47	** Dorothy is a teenager. She has a VagueAge, being played by a teenager with her chest bound but being a little girl of 6-to-10 in the original books, but many interpret her as Judy Garland's age. This helps the ComingOfAgeStory element of the film.
48	* A common theory regarding the ContinuitySnarl between ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' is that the Xavier who visited Jean Grey was, in fact, a psychic projection.

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