• Suzie Derkins (and, therefore, Marla Singer)
  • I feel funny. I actually understood that. WMG-points for me, I guess.
• Minus (and, therefore, Anthony Fremont)
• Konata Izumi
• The Snarl
• Sasami Kawai
  • Tenchi, not Sasami. She is host to a lesser, named, Goddess (Tsunami), while Tenchi is getting power from a "connection" to a "higher deity".
• Mick Foley represents another older, male example of Haruhi.
  • By extension, so is The Boulder.
• Another male example is the Fourth Hokage.
• The Anti-Haruhi (and by extension, anti-christ) is Mandy.
• River Tam
• Strong Bad. Seriously, everything he imagines becomes real eventually. Trogdor, Stinkoman, Senor Cardgage...
• The Childlike Empress
  • The Old Man of Wandering Mountain is Kyon.
• Brahma the Creator (see below.)
• Neku.
• Morgan Freeman, seeing as he is also God.
• Amaterasu. Possibly?
• The Heroine of Light
• Gordon Freeman. Adrian Sheppard (from Opposing Force) is the Anti-Christ.
  • By extention, Gregory House
• Arceus
• Orihime
• Butters
• Dio Brando is an incarnation of the Anti-Haruhi.
  • Enrico Pucci serves as Dio's interface
  • Mandy is another one
• Sari Sumdac.
• Kiva again (see voice actor theory below), she just doesn't know it. Thus, by extension, Haruhi is also a Time Lord (if such hasn't been proven already).
• The Muppet Babies' Nanny.
• Lillian Hale
• Ken Jennings.
• Mayumi Thyme. "I am not interested in any ordinary fish."
• Mindy McConnell, after recreating the universe into a 1970s sitcom.
• Yukari Yakumo is more or less the ultimate incarnation of Haruhi. Her power can cause EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS LIST to have never exsisted.
• Alternatively, some of the above are not Haruhi, but instead are people who had her powers before Sasaki.
• Rozalin, after being reincarnated at level 1.
• Karin Sasamori. Even her methods of getting what she wants are identical.
• *Little Kuriboh
• Claire Stanfield was the (thoroughly aware) incarnation of Haruhi. The "three years prior" event in which Haruhi came into her reality warping powers occurs exactly at the time of Claire's "death" (Which doesn't actually happen because Claire knows he can't die — he just decides he's been Claire long enough and wants to be Haruhi now instead).
• Rose Tyler The creation of Bad Wolf was also possibly the creation of Haruhi, but no one can say for sure.
• Dr. Insano

The plot of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne is just an idle daydream in Haruhi's fancy, created and crushed in the blink of an eye as she searches for anything odd or interesting. This in turn means that she is none other than the Great Will itself.

• Or, Haruhi is actually a fictional character designed to personify the Pan-Fictional Cabal, who are the REAL manipulators of reality, as detailed in an above theory. Haruhi is just a red herring/mascot.
  • That is blasphemy! Haruhi's the only one not being controlled by the Cabal.
    • Haruhi IS the Cabal.
    • But she doesn't know what the Joker's going to do next.
    • Long story short, it turns out that everyone is Jesus in space.
• The Pan-Fictional Cabal are the fourth agency monitoring Haruhi. The reason they don't need to have an agent visible like the other three is that Konata is their agent, and she can monitor Haruhi secretly on television.
  • Then, this means that Konata is the slider and hasn't been recruited into the SOS brigade because she slid out of Haruhi's universe.
  • Pretty defective agent. She's too lazy to read the light novels, meaning that she's constantly behind. There's gotta be a second one...

Haruhi's Dimensional Sliders are, in fact, the Q... but Q are also aliens, time travelers, and espers. At the same time. Aliens, time travelers, and espers like Yuki, Mikuru, and Koizumi were in fact wiped out by the Q in a fit of jealousy, trying to prove their supremacy to Haruhi, who subsequently joined their number and left a wave of chaos in her wake... hence the existence of every other alien race or strange outer space phenomena encountered in Star Trek.

as in Kingdom Hearts. The Celestials that the ESPers fight are a form of Heartless, as they are called into being by Haruhi's negative emotions, and its stated that if they are allowed to exist long enough the world will be destroyed. Closed space is akin to the sealed area in Hollow Bastion that required the princesses of heart to open. Kyon is a keyblade bearer, but has not physically manifested his keyblade yet. The event three years ago was when the world was linked, and the natural barriers around it fell.

If everyone is everyone else and they are all Haruhi timelords that live in computer simulated Evangelion spinoffs then this has to be true.

• Some of them are Shinigamis, too.

Hence, he is also President James Marshall from Air Force One, Agent Deckard from Blade Runner, and Han Solo.

• So he was the President of the United States in contemporary times, but becomes a minor bounty hunter living in a dilapidated hulk of a building in the future. What happened?
  • Clearly, when President Marshall tried to fight whatever it was that turned the Blade Runner world into a dystopia, he got in over his head. Political coups are terrible things.
  • Didn't Star Wars take place quite some time ago?
  • Time is circular. There is a big crunch in the future, followed by a new big bang, reigniting everything all over again. Since Indy is immortal, he survives this.
  • Deckard of Blade Runner is also a minor bounty hunter living in a diapidated hunk of a building.

• He is one of The Patriots, who were the ones who put him on office under the identity of James Marshall.
  • Meaning Raiden did not, in fact, kill him.
    • Precisely! The Indiana Jones soon to feature in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is, in fact, a clone who suffered extremely fast ageing.
  • Of course, since Han Solo lived a long time ago, clearly a Time Lord gave him a lift to the past.
• Alternative non-retarded theory: Han Solo is a Time Lord and the Millenium Falcon is heavily modified TARDIS. He either regenerated into Indy, or travels forward in time and takes on the identity of Indiana Jones.
  • Which he later left in a warehouse, where it took the shape of a fridge and tried to find him again. It did.
  • Why would the Millennium Falcon be a heavily modified TARDIS?
    • It's smaller on the inside.
• Time is cyclical— "This has all happened before, and it will all happen again". Hence, the far future is "a long time ago".
• He become a Heroic Spirit then. Which class, and which Heaven's Feel will he be summoned in?

Renegade Replicants caused significant deaths. Eventually, public outcry led to the complete prohibition of androids. Cylons were invented to fill the void, and Replicants were completely forgotten... Until the Cylons rebelled and rediscovered Replicant technology.

• Everyone knows that KITT, the Knight Rider car, is an early-generation Cylon prototype, which leaves only the following question: is he pre- or post-Replicants?

Much more likely, the Replicants are descended from the Cylons. They wipe out the Galactica—or they believe they have—and kinda feel sorry afterwards. Then they arrive at Earth, find out it's the fictional 21st Century, and what do they do? Make backdoor deals with the Tyrell Corporation: sell them their elite bioengineering skills in exchange for an insidious, more peaceful megacorp-driven thrust to Take Over The World. They'll figure out that Vichy Earth was not the good idea it seemed at the time on New Caprica and establish a Pinky And The Brain-style benevolent dictatorship. Harrison Ford's character is a victim of their massive Xanatos Roulette to soften public opinion towards Artificial Humans.

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• The Matrix, natch.
• Tron
• Homestar Runner, hence the complete lack of a fourth wall and the wonky physics, especially after the introduction of 423,827 computer viruses. Homsar is The One.
• Saved By The Bell, hence the fact that the entire known universe is part of Bayside High.
• Groundhog Day
  • For that matter, any story that uses a Groundhog Day Loop without offering some in-universe explanation. (Except Run Lola Run.)
• The Big O (and, possibly by extension, the 1980 Flash Gordon movie)
• There is at least a theoretical chance that The Matrix is also Instrumentality, which would add all guesses in that listing (below) to this guess, and vice versa.
• Could said simulation be the holodeck? If so, and the Matrix is Instrumentality which is also purgatory, then Star Trek is purgatory and by extension, so is Doctor Who.
• The Ring. Samara's obviously a rogue program in one of the earlier iterations of the Matrix.
• Lyoko in Code Lyoko
• The entire Dot Hack franchise...
• Haruhi Suzumiya (and by extension, anyone who is a younger version of her, plus Mick Foley)
• Real Life!
• It got really buggy in The Mothman Prophecies.
• The "real world" of The Matrix could well be a long-post-Judgement-Day Terminator world, if you discount the Animatrix shorts.
  • Maybe the Matrix Movies exist inside the Matrix presumably to make simulation theorists look crazy, and the Animatrix shorts were created by the robots in order to distract people from the TRUTH!!!
• Super Sentai
  • ...and by extension Power Rangers.
• The Skeleton Key. All the hoodoo and Grand Theft Me is mind-hacking.

• Old Home from Haibane Renmei
• Ohtori Academy from Revolutionary Girl Utena
• Earl's pickup and environs from My Name Is Earl
• The Island from Lost
• The Mountain of Purgatorio
• Outer Space for the Robinsons (or maybe just Doctor Smith), who are Lost In Space
• Every Final Fantasy game ever.
• The Land Ruled By the Smiling Baby Faced Sun with an Iron Fist. Time for Teletubbies! Time for Teletubbies!
• Charlie Brown's neighborhood in Peanuts.
• The Land Before Time
• Shinji Ikari's life in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Poor Bastard.
• The cast of Avatar And The Airbending Fellowship Of Vampire Slayers, as they do not want to be left out.
• Lester the Rat of Beakmans World. And each of the female assistants. Josie was the lucky one, Liza was less lucky, and Phoebe...well, she's probably still there. Waiting. As for Beakman...well, he's the timekeeper.
• The cast of College Roomies From Hell
• Guilty Gear.
• Azumanga Daioh's Yukari and Nyamo, and possibly Kimura and/or Kaorin as well.
• The Scavenger Hunt on TV Tropes Wiki.
• The 2004 Phantom of the Opera is a purgatory for King Leonidas of 300. Can you think of a worse punishment for a macho king than to be forced to sing and leap around with a disfiguring scar?
• Kino, interestingly, is traveling in Purgatory/Hell, but she's not condemned to it. She's touring and quite enjoying herself.
• All-World from The Dark Tower.
• The Court at Gunner's Crag is Purgatory for the Suicide Fairies and some humans (like Mort). The Guides are atoning for past wrongs by escorting souls.
• Nozomu Itoshiki, and possibly his students.
• Riverworld
• The colorless world Rainbow Brite was sent to.
• Dr. Drakken, repeatedly using his often misguided genius for a grab at world domination, only to be knocked down by two schoolkids and mocked by his sidekick.
• Wile E. Coyote
• Manchester, circa 1973 and presumably now London, 1981.
  • And New York City, circa 1973.
• Everyone in Eastenders. You don't need to believe this to see Walford as a circle of hell.
• Blood Gulch - though perhaps Jossed by Reconstruction. This is also why Church may have died, but can't move on - I'm sure you agree he could if he would.
• The cul-de-sac in Ed, Edd, and Eddy. Following the theory that hell is other people, they all make each other miserable. Notice that YOU NEVER SEE ANYONE ELSE THERE.
• Everyone. They are also Jesus.

• Aslan from The Chronicles Of Narnia. ...oh wait...
• Mokona from Magic Knight Rayearth ...oh wait....
• Fei and Elly from Xenogears...oh crap, this is becoming a pattern...
• Everyone in Final Fantasy but especially Aerith (the hippy side) and Sephiroth (the one who gets to kick everyone's butts in the Apocalypse.)
• Annie from Gunnerkrigg Court
• Conan The Barbarian
• The Emperor from Warhammer40000. ...oh yeah...
• Neo from The Matrix. "Whoa!"
• Kaworu from Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Captain Sheridan
• Joan Of Arcadia
• Dave Jones
• Collin, the Annointed One
• The Tenth Doctor. Come on, reborn and saving the world on Christmas Day?
• Tommy Oliver
• Aura
• Flash Gordon. Oh, come on! Saviour of the universe? He's for every one of us, stand for every one of us? No-one but the pure of heart can climb the Golden Grail? He even hangs out with a Jewish guy, what more do you want?
• Jaye Tyler, if she isn't crazy.
• Annabelle Sykes
• Rosalina
• Kiba from Wolf's Rain - he and his "disciples" all died so that the world could be resurrected.
• Mork
• River Tam. Hey, she was fixing Book's Bible for a reason.
• Bertie Wooster. Jeeves is an angel sent to keep him on the right course.
• That carpenter guy from The Bible. Hey, bear with me now. (Incidentally this is why Jesus preaches love towards your fellow man: at some point in time he will be that man. He will be all of them. With the possible exception of Mickey Smith.
  • (Possibly confirmed by Word Of God, literally. Matthew 25:40 is all this editor will say on the subject.)
    • (But the books that state he's not Mickey have been suppressed by the Vatican)
    • He's definitely not Uwe Boll. Jesus could not be that big an asshole.
    • One of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is love. So loving the least of your brothers is basically expressing how large your faith in God is.
• In keeping with the above theme: The Avatar, who has been, and will be, all these people and more.
• Kara Thrace. Or possibly also Gaius Baltar. Or Laura Roslin. Or Chip!Six. Or D'Anna. Hey, being the messiah of two entirely different (except kind of not) belief systems is a busy job — wouldn't you try and delegate some of it if you could?
• Superman, who is also Moses.
• Optimus Prime. He died for our sins. Repeatedly.
• Kim Possible: She "can do anything". She saves the world on a regular basis, and when she isn't doing that, she's helping people offscreen, and remains largely humble. You'd nearly expect the series to end with her dying for our sins.
• By the "actor theory" below, anyone voiced by Scott MacNeil.
• Hikari, from Futari Wa Pretty Cure Max Heart, by virtue of the Queen being God (see below).
  • Wouldn't this also make Hikaru the Anti-christ?
• Sailor Moon: She's literally referred to as the messiah, she can bring herself back from the dead and purify evil, and she rules over her own version of heaven in the future.
  • Sailor Saturn is the Sophia to Sailor Moon's Jesus. Sailor Galaxia is The Antichrist.
• Mega Man X. It dosen't help that he was given a Hijacked By Jesus makeover in the Mega Man Zero series.
• Mikuru Asahina, she was decorated with balloons for our sins.
• Sankt Kaiser Olivier and by extension Vivio Takamachi. Vivio is an ordinary elementary school student.
• Kamina died for our sins.
• Tyler Durden is Christ, Marla Singer is Sophia and the Narrator is Judas Iscariot.
• Donnie Darko is Christ with Jim Cunningham as the Anti-Christ.

• And so is the one that Nova met when she was Big in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go.

• Pokemon
  • Follow closely, children: As per the supplementary material provided in the Evangelion videogames, Angels and Humans were both descended or evolved by something known as the "Ancestral Race", a shadowy group of aliens that went around seeding planets capable of supporting life in the Evangelion universe with white or black "moons". White moons contained Adam-like beings and a Lance of Longinus, which could pierce AT Fields, hence granting the "Ancestral Race" a degree of control over said beings. Conversely, black moons contained Lilith-like beings and, again, a Lance of Longinus. Earth was initially seeded with a white moon from which emerged Adam and evolved the Angels. However, a black moon also crash-landed on Earth accidentally, causing Angels and Humans to compete for ecosystemic supremacy. Humanity won (kind of), and, as a result, humanity was given the opportunity to evolve further: Orbs being tossed to the ground, a struggle between two kinds of beings, and then the victorious set of beings are granted a chance to evolve—sounding disturbingly familiar yet?
    • Oh, and on top of that, in the continuity of the Pokemon universe itself, it is heavily implied that Pokemon arrived on the world in which Pokemon is set from space by way of a giant meteor impact.
• Shaman King
  • Mainly as in "when all people die, they reunite with the Great Spirit, but can be called back or revived, somehow".
• Mai-Otome
• GI Joe
• Digimon Tamers
• Starfox
• Shogo Mobile Armor Divison
• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
• Final Fantasy VII
• Xenogears
• And these take place within Instrumentality:
  • FLCL
  • Suzumiya Haruhi No Yuutsu
  • Kare Kano
  • Persona 3
  • The Prisoner
  • Twin Peaks
  • Bokurano
  • Rozen Maiden
  • Yu-Gi-Oh GX
  • The final episode of Mork And Mindy
  • Kingdom Hearts ("Is any of this for real or not?")
  • Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes

• Shai-Hulud
• The human model Cylons
• The Doctor
• Alton Brown
• Chiyo-chichi
• Calvin
• Yog-Sothoth, who existed before time began and exists beyond all known creation. Created Azathoth, who created our own universe by accident, making him more of a God of god(s).
  • By extension, the Dunwich Horror is Jesus (this was probably intentional).
• Minus (OK, that one's a gimme)
• The President from Deep Impact
• Everyone from Final Fantasy VII
• Homsar
• Latro
• Pen-Pen
• Larry
• Mr. Rogers
• Kyon
• The Sun Baby
• Amaterasu
• The Cloudkeeper/Great Wishing Star
• Jesus
  • But that's impossible! Jesus wears glasses and God doesn't!
• Tommy Westphall
• Mick Foley (Assuming that you do not take the argument of Foley-as-Haruhi)
  • Or that you do take it, and also the idea of Haruhi-as-Christ, and the idea of the Trinity.
• Robin Williams
• Kratos, though he isn't Jesus.
• Pacifica Casull
• Chuck Norris
• Master Hand. And, by extension, Crazy Hand.
• Erin Esurance
• Simo Häyhä
• Tommy Oliver
• Captain Falcon
• Toph Bei Fong
• The Queen.
  • Hikari, of course, is Jesus. By extension, Hikaru is The Antichrist.
  • Nagisa, Honoka, Saki, Mai, Michiru, Kaoru, Nozomi, Rin, Urara, Komachi, Karen, Kurumi, Love, Miki, and Inori are the Apostles. Judas's intentional betrayal is actually a heavily biased depiction of Kurumi-as-Milk's tendency to cause problems by, well, being Milk. Likewise the idea that there were only twelve apostles at any given time is due to the fact Michiru and Kaoru are often ignored by the marketing team.
• Dr. Light
• Godzilla
• Orihime
• Peter Petrelli
• Susan Ivonava
• Optimus Prime
• Light Yagami
• ->~

(You and Me, lol)

• Haruhi Suzumiya: Brahma, the Creator. It's been said she was Christ...
• Son Goku: Vishnu, the Preserver. The whole Universe was going to die, but he managed to put a stop to it.
• Ideon: Shiva, the Destroyer. Ideon destroyed the Universe!

• The Planet Mildchilda, but the Infinite Library especially.
• The Heart of Kandrakar
• The Starborn Gem
• The Door To Revolution
• The Door Of Light And Darkness
• The Door Of Truth
• The Gate Of Truth
• The Galaxy Cauldron
• The Star Road
• The Eye of Harmony
• The Monarch of Pointland (she takes up her entire universe and thus must be the Dark Tower)
• The Infinite Clock, the World Tree, and the Sky Tree
• The aforementioned Tommy Westphall.
• The Submachine Net
  • Does that make Murtagh Roland? Or Flagg?
• The Portal Stones
• Tanelorn
• Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
• That fish shop. You know the one, the one they opened on Dagon Street...
• The fractal key
• Rupert Murdoch. This would explain a lot.
• Oban
• The Gates of Oblivion
• Spectra
• The Pillar of Cephiro was the Dark Tower until Hikaru made it so Cephiro was supported by the people of Cephiro.
• [[Halo

In the first one, no time travel ever happened, and the whole Skynet/Connor creating themselves paradox did not happen. With AI developing at normal speed without this shortcuts, mankind realized the danger soon enough and created failsafes to prevent the potential catastrophe. Blade Runner happens in this continuity.

In the second one, the war against machines happened, and mankind won. But the nuclear war has turned the Earth into a wasteland, and raised the sea level. The survivors live piled up in supercities while most of the land is covered in nuclear deserts. Judge Dredd and Neon Genesis Evangelion occur here.

In the third one, Connor was eliminated, and machines won the war. Afterwards, they created The Matrix, and that timeline eventually became the setting of Cars and The Jetsons. Not counting every series which takes place within the Matrix.

150,000 years before Terminator, to be exact. The war against the machines, whatever the outcome, is the next phase of the never-ending cycle of human-Cylon conflict. All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.

At the end of the Machine War, all of humanity was unplugged from the Matrix. Unwilling to move underground or share the ravaged surface with the Machines, humanity built cities above the clouds. The declined computing power resulting from the loss of the Matrix knocked the Machines back to pre-Skynet levels. By the time they cleaned up the environment, the Machines had evolved into automobiles.

Millions of years after the events of Battlestar Galactica, the machines that rose up in Terminator and made mankind extinct have begun to deteriorate, and seeking to fix the problem, Skynet unlocked the secret to creating The Cube, which had unexpected side effects when actually pulled off. What The Cube eventually turned Skynet and its robot soldiers into would become known as the Transformers - Megatron is an eventual side effect of Skynet's resistance to this transformation. The Earth the Transformers travel to is simply the next one down the line. After all, this has all happened before and will all happen again - if Megatron has anything to say about it.

Fifty thousand years and change ago, not long before their extinction, Prothean scientists took a few small groups of Homo sapiens from Earth to twelve outlying Prothean colonies to study their evolution. Unfortunately, the scientists were abruptly drafted and called away when the Reapers attacked, leaving human society to develop on its own, much as it did on Earth. Hence, you have the 12 colonies. The Lords of Kobol are the Protheans, or at least the primitive human interpretation of them.

Meanwhile, it's not too ridiculous to assume that, much like the geth, the Cylons encountered Sovereign at some point—hence, the monotheistic Cylon religion.

As for why the Colonies haven't run into the asari, turians, or even the Alliance... perhaps the mass relays for the Colonies were destroyed, and they've had to rely on standard FTL to get everywhere. Boy, the Colonial fleet is in for a surprise when they finally get to Earth...

• The Colonial Fleet has encountered the other races, but by the time they did, they'd become so adapted to the sterilized atmospheres of their ships that they couldn't survive in a normal atmosphere without spacesuits. The Alliance would never believe the Quarians were human. It also follows logically that the Geth are just more advanced models of Cylon.

• Gin Ichimaru: Light Yagami
• Kisuke Urahara: L
  • In accordance with the list of Time Lords above, this means that Urahara is the ghost of a Time Lord. And a Death (God). In purgatory.
  • Upon his untimely demise, L's soul, tormented at having been killed by his only 'friend' proceeded to develop into a hollow, who is now known as (L)quiorra!
    • L's soul split on death. His analytical skills became the shingami Urahara. His arogance and drive became the hollow Ulquiorra. This is not happenstance — it is part of a long game to capture Kira wherever he flees.
    • I always thought that Urahara looked a lot like Faust VIII...
• Sousuke Aizen: Justice Lord Superman
• Grimmjow Jeagerjaques: Gamma Akutabi (Zombie Powder)
• Shunsui Kyōraku: Amano Hyo or Okumichi no kami Genji
• Nanao Ise: Yomiko Readman
• Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai: Gen
• Kenpachi Zaraki: Sagat
• Yachiru Kusajishi: Yotsuba Koiwai
• Hanatarō Yamada: Shinji Ikari
• Seinosuke Yamada: Simon
• Retsu Unohana: Aoi Sakuraba
• Kaien Shiba: Zack Fair
• Tōshirō Hitsugaya: Chipp Zanuff
• Kaname Tōsen: Stevie Wonder
• Sajin Komamura: James McCloud
• Rangiku Matsumoto: Mai Shuranui
• Ikkaku Madarame: Joe Higashi
• Yumichika Ayasegawa: Ash Crimson
• Mayuri Kurotsuchi: Caulder
• Nemu Kurotsuchi: Rei Ayanami
• Jūshirō Ukitake: Ukyo Tachibana
• Renji Abarai: Genjuro Kibagami
• Byakuya Kuchiki: Rossiu
• Marechiyo Ōmaeda: Gan Isurugi
  • Or Bling Bling Boy, but these two aren't mutually exclusive.
• Tia Harribel: Halle Berry
• Cirucci Thunderwitch: Mimete
• Nnoitra Jiruga: Akechi Mitsuhide (It's so obvious)
• Zommari Leroux: Grim (Is there any other reason why his release is a giant pumpkin?)
  • This one's all but assured now, considering that they now share a voice actor (Greg Eagles).
• Aaroniero Arruruerie: The Brain and/or Akira from Akira
• Yammy Rialgo: Nappa
• Barragan Lusienbarn: The King of Shinigami
• Coyote Starrk: Shikamaru Nara

Ryuk's world, then, is Hueco Mundo and he and his friends are arrancar. Their referring to themselves as "shinigami" is a half-truth born of jealousy, and perhaps a justification for their murderous actions.

• Notably, this means the arrencar have an ability that most shinigami do not - the ability to give living humans additional lifespan (albeit at the rather nasty cost of that being half their lifespan, and they have to die in the process) - which in turn could make them living Holy Grails, like the one that made Indiana Jones have such an extended lifespan!

• Emperor Beld and Ganondorf
• Durza and Ganondorf
  • This implies that Durza was morally good, since he, you know, DIED, and Ganon hasn't yet. Which means that Ganon is more powerful than Durza. So yeah, it turns out that Eragon is evil.
• Captain Falcon and Ganondorf
• Ranma (female) and Kasumi (Dead or Alive)
• Ranma (female) and Hikaru Shidou
• Ranma (female) and Lina Inverse
• Laharl and Ash and Almaz
• Adell and Luke (Tales of the Abyss)
• Frieza and Mewtwo
• Zack Fair and Kaien Shiba are clearly the same person
• Kirika and Kino and Chiko.
• Ryuk and Disney's Hades.
  • And the Heath Ledger incarnation of the Joker.
• Watanuki and Itoshiki-sensei
• Voldemort and Orochimaru
• David Xanatos and Gendo Ikari
• Dartz and Light Yagami
• Light Yagami and Lelouch Lamperouge
  • And Seto Kaiba, unless you believe he is their estranged love child.
• Batman and Dr. McNinja
• Eriol Hiiragizawa, Harry Potter, Negi Springfield, Ponder Stibbons, and Tim Hunter
• Ansem and Akio
• The God-Emperor of Mankind and Professor Charles Xavier
  • Couldn't they be not reincarnations of each other, but actually the same person?
• Master Chief and Cloud Strife
• Rei Ayanami and Cheza. The evidence is here.
• Jareth and Nakago ("Everything I've done I've done for you, Sarah. I mean Yui. Yui! I mean — hey, come back here!")
  • Furthermore, Jareth is Graf von Krolock's brother, who was stolen by the goblins as a baby and raised as their own, eventually becoming King. When he tried to reconnect with his brother, there was a massive falling-out between them over their mutual interest in teenage girls named Sarah who were bored and felt unappreciated at home. However, before going back to the Goblin City, Jareth was pleased to see that his personality type and appearance apparently ran in the Krolock bloodline and had extended to his nephew Herbert.
• Sailor Pluto and Mamoru (Oooold joke)
• Miles Edgeworth and Edo Phoenix
• Shinji Ikari and Elric of Melniboné Hideaki Anno IS a huge fan of English-language science fiction and fantasy, and the personalities of these two characters are so similar that Anno must be familiar with Moorcock's work. There are even some odd parallels in the overall plots, if you squint a bit.
• Alternately, Shinji Ikari and Charlie Brown.
  • These are not mutually exclusive. Cue Elric saying "Good grief!"
• In the same vein, Misato Katsuragi, Wonderella, and Bangladesh DuPree are all incarnations of the same person in different timelines.
• Dr. Clayton Forrester and Beakman.
• Mr. Fantastic and J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
• Xelloss and Lord Varys.
• Hyatt and Juushiro Ukitake.
• Scorpius and Psycho Mantis: deformed pale guys dressed in bondage gear who are really good at screwing with your head.
  • While Mao doesn't have the outfit, he probably still counts.
• Giles and Shepherd
• 343 Guilty Spark and C-3PO
• Dr. Gregory House and Dr. Gordon Freeman
  • Dr. House and Dr. Black Jack
• Kane and Gendo Ikari
• Ganondorf and Gendo Ikari
• Roger Smith and Shinji Ikari. Rei's counterpart is Dorthy, Asuka's is Angel, and Big O itself is Eva Unit 01.
• Integra Hellsing and Catherina Sforza
• Micheal J Caboose and Homestar Runner
• Paul McCartney and Jude Feeney.
• Chuck Norris and Kamina
• Captain Jack Sparrow and Orihime. Separated at birth, by time, space, and dimensions.
• Kisuke Urahara and FaustVIII, although the former doesn't have a wife.
• Megan and Azula.
• Peter Petrelli and Y The Last Man and Emo Peter Parker
• Sylar and Dr. Manhattan, Spock, John Murdock, Dr. House, and Crowley.
• Aziraphale and Dr. Daniel Jackson
• Tenth Doctor and Barty Crouch Jr.
• Spike and Captain John Hart
• Bester and Chekov
• Alma and the Witch
• Gordon Freeman and Isaac Clarke

Both take a stand against tyrants, both successfully defend themselves against overwhelming odds, and both eventually fall to a Rain Of Arrows. It does seem, however, that the two hundred years or so he spent in the Underworld before reincarnating has mellowed Leonidas somewhat, which is why the hero doesn't ever scream, "This! Is! CHINA!!!"

• The one calligraphist assassin might have gotten some of Leonidas' attitude, even if he shows it in the more "civilized" form of writing giant letters in the sand.
  • The hero in Hero is also a pussy when it comes to Tyranny. That's BAD mellowing.

Both were abandoned at birth and raised by different species, and both are generally amazingly naive about life. And they're both apparently able to make the most depraved, evil people imaginable behave like pure-of-heart idealists through believing in the goodness buried within them. Moreover, both are fully capable of absolutely destroying the few that don't respond to the "I believe in you!" treatment. Plus. there's the whole Kakarott/Carrot thing.

• Pokemon
• NERV'S technology
• The Cars
• The non-human ''Looney Tunes'' characters.
• KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand).

The Dark King, an ancient evil who desires total destruction of all reality, is clearly Unicron, with Gooyan being a smaller, Cybertron-esque regeneration thereof and the Nightmare Group and such being people from Planet X. Primus, who has been female all this time and has learned to create an avatar of herself (the Queen), created warriors in her image (which were cute girls this time around because of her avatar, rather than the usual giant robots) to defeat Unicron. These warriors fight using the power of light, which is the same as the power of the Matrix, and (like Cybertronians) can transform between normal-looking forms that fit in on Earth, and more attention-getting (but clearly visually related) forms that are suited for combat. The Matrix itself originally took the form of the Prism Hopish, but was later transformed into the Symphony Set.

Oh, you want proof? One of the emails posted on the Sector Seven ARG mentioned the Garden of Light.

• Hueco Mundo
• Minusland
• The alternate hotel from Trilby's Notes, also known as the Realm of Magick/Realm of Chzo
• Yami-gaia
• Shinigami's World
• The Demon World
• The Twilight
• Times Square during the 1970s and 1980s
• The dark side of Imaginationland
• The Ghost Zone
• The Spirit World
• The Spirit World
• The Phantom Zone
• The Phantom Zone, again
• Dollurh
• The Dark World
• The Home For Infinite Losers
• This place has a lower vibe than the Realground
• The Netherworld
• The Shadow Realm
• The Shadowlands
• Otherworld and its various layers
• Todash
• Ghost World in the 2009 game
  • But, Todash isn't a world while the places listed above are.

All fictional universes are being manipulated by a shadowy cabal in order to further its schemes. The cabal consists of R2-D2, Havelock Vetinari, Sokka, Magus from Chrono Trigger, Jean-Luc Picard, Jonas Venture Sr.,Princess Zelda, and Princess Peach. They also have unwitting agents in other universes. Their goal is probably to find the Ultimate Question, after their pawn Arthur Dent failed in his task. The TV Tropes wiki is another part of their plot.

• Also, Jeeves is part of the Cabal, but not part of the main council. He's too busy training Bertie Wooster, who is actually The Chosen One.
• The Patriots, who created the TV Tropes Wiki inside Arsenal Gear, and SEELE, whose Unification of Mankind Project was obviously an atempt to improve the Earth Supercomputer, are either fronts or branches of the cabal.
• This group caused The Great Crash in an atempt to hide their existence. They failed.
  • Alternatively, that's what they WANT us to think. What would be a better idea, shutting down a possible means of success, or just throwing us mere mortals off the trail?
• It is theoretically possible that the TV Tropes wiki is a part of the cabal itself, created by the cabal to create a form of mass intelligence in the hope of emulating the Earth that produced Arthur Dent while providing ideas for other places to advance.
• Yes, but chances are they're being played for chumps by Azula, who masterminds everything that everyone does in every reality, except what Haruhi Suzumiya does.
  • But she's being played by Light Yagami, who is being played by Darkseid, who is being played by...
    • Vickey Gurrero, who also secretly controls the WWE in her spare time (all that stuff thats been going on for the past... like... what two and a half years, at least? Yeah. Nothing more than a [1] set in motion by her).
    • Tzeentch, who is playing everyone and everything from the beginning of time.
    • Pfft, he's being quietly manipulated by Bat-Mite.
    • Who is an unknowing puppet of Doom!
    • But then, Tommy Westphall just dreamed Doom up, just like he dreamed the rest of television up, so everyone is his pawn in that big chess game in his autistic mind...
    • Who is a himself a collective of the minds of all of them.
    • The main Cabal is controlling everyone who is supposed to be controlling them, but their plans are such that they require a large amount of people to believe that they are manipulating the manipulators.
    • Considering the above list, it's probably more likely that, apart from Haruhi, every single member of the Cabal is the same Time Lord during different regenerations.
    • And they're all being lorded over by Nerissa, whose fantasy of ruling the universe that was supposed to be just a delusion projected by the Jewel of Meridian is actually real, and she's got everyone else trapped in the Seal of Nerissa and is deluding them, Matrix-style, from her throne at the center of the universe.
    • And she's being used by Dr. Wily
    • Who is being backstabbed by Vetinari, because he's just that awesome.
    • And all this proves once again Xanatos's plan to become a Higher Deity are another step closer to completion.
    • And ALL of them are being lead by the nose in endless circles by The Doctor. Because he's VERY GOOD.
    • And Kane is playing every single one of these people for his own benefit.
    • Meanwhile, with everyone else occupied, Shockwave has infiltrated the upper echelons of the organisation (Remember that friendly blue robot who waved to you on the stairs? Think; was he here last week?), and is currently biding his time and waiting for the right moment to strike...
  • How could anyone believe that what transpires does not unfold exactly as Kane plans. Of course Kane could not have planned for an ambush BY HIS OWN FORCES!
    • Which is just what Xanatos planned all along.
    • And everything that has transpired is just a part of Aizen's bankai.
    • Or so he thinks, after a visit from Charles.
    • And their all being manipulated by The Joker in his grand master plan to show all the schemers how stupid and useless their planning is. For very soon from now, he and the forces of Chaotic Evil will rule all of existence!
    • And he, in turn, is stymied by basic human decency and goodness, which powers the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann! Which the council planned for all along. They are VERY good at what they do. They only missed one person in their accounting: Vic Sage.
• However the positive power of Gurren Lagann is being converted into negative energy used to destroy the universe by the Daleks!
  • Who are secretly creations of Unicron.
• All of this, of course, is being masterminded by Yui Ikari

• People have noticed this cabal and are attempting to gather as much information as possible to destroy it. For instance, in our reality, the internet holds the information.
  • Transformers: Teletraans.
  • Pokemon: Pokedexes.
  • Naruto: Kabuto's Ninja-info-cards.
  • Dragonball: The scouter.
  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Giles.
  • Austin Powers: Basil Exposition
    • This has some disturbing implications. Either A: This cabal intends to further manipulate Earth with this info, or B: the countercabal will plunge us into another Dark Age.
  • Lucky Star: Miyuki Takara.
• When you say "their pawn Arthur Dent", you mean the man who runs the galaxy, right, as is known to six people in it — and we have seen six people who know? You may have underestimated this 'pawn's' subtle game of Xanatos Fizzbin. Prak has not. Fortunately, he is part of the cabal.
  • From my limited knowlege of current events, Mr. Dent has gone into hiding in New York and is assisted with his assistant, John Munch. Munch was assigned to New York from Baltimore to protect Arthur and fight any civil-liberty-threatening laws that come up in his work, as they would reveal his presence. (SVU is the department that usually ran into these laws first)
• I have some interesting new information on my theory, and I'll post it on the Fora within the next few days. If someone whose username isn't 'Moogi' posts it, it's a red herring put there by the cabal.
• Where does Haruhi Suzumiya fit into this?
  • Wherever she wants.
    • Haruhi is just a front. The Cabal use her as a distraction to draw speculation away from the real source of power- them.
    • Whatever the case is, the Question knows all about it...
• The Countercabal (which attempts to destroy all information) include the following:
  • Big Brother
  • The Crimson King. The Dark Tower is the source of all information in King's reality.
  • Jack Chick, who attempted (and still attempts) to convince that this information is, in fact, Satanic.
  • Wormtongue . Had Gandalf (who is basically a pawn of Mustrum Ridcully, who is in turn a pawn of Vetinari) not intervened, Tolkien's world would have vanished, along with Tolkien.
• In addition, Jasper Fforde invented his literary police to keep the Countercabal in check. So, the question is, where does he fit into this?
  • The same place as The Question and Dr. Henry Killinger - an independent agent trying to preserve lifekind from the mad ambitions of both the Cabal and the Countercabal.
• Yukari Yakumo is manipulating all of them with "Boundary between free will and mind control". Since she is the ultimate aspect of Haruhi, this makes sense.
• And the Cabal never saw [[Sanctuary Helen Magnus]] coming.
• However, Tommy Oliver saw it all coming, and has personally stopped both cabals with his sheer awesomeness.
• All of which, Cabal, Countercabal, and independents; God, Nyalathotep and Xanatos; the Guild of Calamitous Intent, the Boy Scouts and the Vatican; every person, being and concept in the Pantheon; every US President, Roman Emperor and Egyptian Pharaoh; every person with power they put there, every plan put forth by their will, every revelation made with their permission; all of them are know to be incarnations, cells, sub-groups, dupes or agents, knowingly or obliviously, mortal or infinite, of the same omnipresent, inscrutable and immortal Ordo Illuminati.fnord
  • Yes, even that one.

Except Yog-Sothoth, who runs it.

• Including everything that happened in Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond.
• Why else would so many tropes be named after him? He's behind every Gambit and Roulette in existance.
  • That's just what he wants you to think! Or Is It? Or is that? Argggh!fnord
  • So does that mean that David Xanatos is Tzeentch?
    • No. He's the [[Warhammer40000 God-Emperor]].

Hey, he figured out the fluoridated toothpaste/spy satellite connection, not to mention that sinister aglet thing. It's not too much of a stretch.

• This makes him the Anti-Xanatos.
• Au contraire! His conspiratorial knowledge only goes back to Ancient Egypt. HOWEVER! The oldest known work of fiction (Epic of Gilgamesh) goes back to Sumer, before Ancient Egypt! The Pan-Fictional Cabal (above) is outside the realm of his knowledge!
  • However, upon reading the above statement, he has now become aware of the gap in his knowledge and is working on filling it.fnord
  • As much as I hesitate to bring... rationality to this page, the Epic of Gilgamesh's 2000 year writing process starts about 1000 years after what we call Ancient Egypt started. The Epic was finalized at about the same time Ancient Egypt was falling. So the Question is good actually. Unless this accepted history stuff is just what they want you to think...

He is also Xanatos in disguise. He has planned every work of fiction, all crossover, and all of this speculation we are doing, leading to an, as of now, unknown end.

• Which explains why he hasn't finished his plan yet. Vic Sage is close enough to spot and defeat the plans before they finish.
  • No, no. It's simply that he's Tzeentch, and thus his plan will never end.
• Furthermore, Xanatos is a natural evolution of his Matches Malone personality, created so he couldn't foil Batman's (the dominant personality) plans. Yes, Batman created a massive fictional conspiracy to test himself.

Batman shouldn't have been hiding in the shadows all this time. Shikamaru is controlling him with his Shadow Possesion Technique, as well as any other conspirers that hide in the dark. Even SEELE.

The only one who has figured this out is Satou Tatsuhiro from Welcome to the NHK

• Who, being fictional, is actually a part of the conspiracy. He's faking being a victim as a sort of Sarcastic Confession to throw of suspicions.
• So, Satou is really a red herring who works for the Cabal?

Think about it. Why would all the myriad universes have lasted so long if the Cabal is behind everything, ever? Why can nobody agree what the Cabal is doing, let alone the Cabal itself? Why is there so much Ho Yay all over the place? Why do people become Flanderised? Why do people have UST but nothing happens? Because the Cabal are the fans of reality - bickering constantly with one another over what is "true" and what isn't, writing more and more stories and arguing about them. The only thing that keeps them together is their love of reality and their desire for it to continue.

• So, the Cabal is US. All of us. All human and other sentient beings that exist, ever existed and will ever exist are THE CABAL.

fnord Basically, the entirety of fiction was started centuries ago as a defence mechanism against other governments, should they ever get hold of certain secrets and try to disseminate them amongst the public at large - the idea being that the public would simply point out that it had been used as the plot of a film/tv series/book/play/whatever, and therefore disbelieve the person disseminating the secrets. Project Fact and Fiction, as it became to be called, entailed turning every possible government secret into the core of a work of fiction: this therefore explains the mystery surrounding Shakespeare's plays - they were part of Project Fact and Fiction, and thus were actually written by playwrights working for Queen Victoria. Any work of fiction that couldn't possibly be based on Earth, either due to the necessities of the genre (e.g. fantasy, sci-fi) or due to anachronisms with established history (anything set in WWII, 1984) were generated via simulations to gauge human responses to such situations, and also provided a useful smokescreen to hide the actual government secrets in.

• Gibberish! That was exactly the plot of...oooooooohhh!

All of it. Ever.

• Alucard
• Kaworu Nagisa
  • Wait, so Nyarlathotep is Kaworu, who in turn is Jesus and therefore both Haurhi and the Dunwitch Horror?
• Kyon, as the entity which goes around making sure that the creator of reality (Azathoth, aka Haruhi) remains asleep. All the SOS really is is an updated version of the ol' pipes routine.
• the Fireclown
• Arioch, Duke of Hell
• The Master
• Satan
• Randall Flagg
• Number 1
• BOB
• J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
• The Janitor
• Reynardine
  • Alternatively, Coyote
• Captain Jack Sparrow
• Anonymous
• Psycho Mantis
• James Moriarty
• The Freak
• Sadako
• Le Comte de Saint-Germain
• The Traveller
• Gozar the Destroyer
• Q
• Crayak
• Oogie Boogie
• Nikola Tesla
  • Wait, what?
    • That is who he was originally based on.
• Dio Brando
• The Luggage
• Guu
• The Genie
• Loki
• Morgoth and Sauron
• The Cloverfield Monster
• GLaDOS
• Giygas, and by extension, Ness.
• Parallax
• Unicron
• Both Gesar and Zabulon.
• Ryoji Mochizuki.
• Kaylee
• Johan Liebert.
• Xelloss.
• Littlefinger.
• The Easter Bunny◊
• Spambotsfnord
• Hodgman and his Hobopolis Lieutenants
• MissingNo.
• Neuro
• Majin Buu
• Queen Metaria, Death Phantom, Pharaoh 90, Queen Nehellenia and Chaos
• Naraku
• The Joker in all his incarnations
• Hordak Prime
• Dark Matter
• Barack Obama
• Tzeentch, Nyarlathotep's manifestation in the warp, just as the Black Pharaoh manifests in the cosmos.
  • In addition, the Abyss is Nyarlathotep's manifestation in the Route of Ages.
• Uboa, who is also Che Guevara and a Time Lord.
• Jack of Blades
• Edward Cullen
• The Dark Passenger
• Lil'Slugger, obviously
• Jackie Estacado, The Darkness as Haunter of the Dark.
• The Guy
• Blackheart
• Noein
• Vin
• The Anti-Spiral King
• Sylar
• Head/"Angel" Six and Baltar
• Crowley
  • Also, Aleister Crowley, prophet and messiah of unbound will (Thelema).
• Sheogorath
• All hail Megatron!
• Ba'al
• Apocalypse
• Raistlin Majere
• Black Mage
• Philemon
  • Wait, Philemon is the source of the Persona-user's power (via his proxy Igor), and in Persona 2, he empowered a group that beat Nyarlathotep.
    • Mind screws should be expected here, really.
    • Considering that, as stated above, Tzeentch is also an incarnation of Nyarlathotep and that he's playing against himself all the time, that's not really a refutation at all.
• the Venom-symbiote
  • And therefore also its descendants and relatives Carnage, Scream, Toxin, Hybrid, the She-Venom clone symbiote, Dreadface, Payback, and Anti-Venom.
• Puck
• Also, O.W. Grant
• Nyarlathotep created the Death Notes (matches M.O. of giving humanity toys and watching them destroy themselves with it) and the Shinigami are his Avatars.
• D-Reaper.
• Tyler Durden.
• Frank.
• Yami Yugi, another manifestation of the Black Pharaoh.
• Preterius. Or maybe Claudandus. One of them for sure!
  • Thinking of it, Claudandus is the more probable candidate here...
• Pharaoh Akh-en-Aton

That is, if they can pause from whining about their terrible fate long enough to do so, hopefully without destroying the world in the process this time. Some possible incarnations include:

• The Security Officer (and by extension Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh and hundreds of others!)
• Master Chief John-117 (possibly same as above)
• Shinji Ikari
• Neo
• Buffy Summers- in fact, The Slayer is the form which the Champion takes in the Buffy Verse
• Harry Potter (the final chapter shows one of the few 'respites' which Sepriz mentioned to Flamadin/John Daker)
• Rincewind - oh, the irony
• Himei Shoutan
• Ash Williams - because even the EC can't be Emo all the time. Besides, a chainsaw is so much cooler than some rusty old sword.
• Samurai Jack
• Paul Atreides
• Cerebus
• Dominic Deegan - pretty explicitly, in fact
• Anne Onymous, who hasn't been doing it long enough yet to get really depressed about it - give her time, sooner or later Cerebus Syndrome will catch up with her
• Baugb the Elf from Elf Life/Bookelfs
• Reuben Flagg from American Flagg!
• Oh, yeah, maybe that weird albino elf dude with the funky black sword, too;
• Mr. Game & Watch, who'll do it without any whining. He's too damn cool for that.
• The Crow
• Kamina, who, in turn, incarnates in Simon
  • Or more likley, was a botched incarnation that split the champion's power in half, and only with the death of one could he become complete once more.
• Wall-E, the little guy worked 700 years to clean up a defiled planet, then instilled free will to robots and man and helped found a new age of peace. Nice work.
• All incarnations of The Avatar. Including The Totally Unrelated Avatar.
• Suicide.
• Link... Kind of a given.
• Rand al'Thor
• The Doctor, of course!
• Italian Spiderman

Think about it. The health bar for Assassins Creed is based on how close Desmond is acting to Altaïr historically. Every time you get hit by guards, you become less "synchronised" to Altaïr. This happens every time Altaïr gets hit, not to mention every time Altaïr is seen by a guard. Since the historical Altaïr would, by the Animus' judging, act identically to himself (obviously), his synchronisation would be perfect all the time. But since your health bar goes down whenever Altaïr gets hit, and Altaïr would be perfectly synched with himself, the historical Altaïr must have never been hit or seen by a guard, which means that Altaïr is the greatest assassin in history. It's also fairly obvious that he can move outside the natural laws of reality; how many times has he been able to listen to the monologues of dying templars? Since you get less synchronized and reboot when in water it is also obvious Altaïr never ever went swimming; he probably pushed them in and let them drown (or sabotaged their equipment).

• What about all the fictional characters who were clearly killed by other people?
  • It only looked like they were killed by other people. Remember, the real Altaïr would never have been seen or detected in any way, so not only we the viewers would be fooled, so would the person who "did the killing" and the person who died.
    • So Han didn't shoot first after all!
    • Oh, he shot first. It's just that Altaïr killed Greedo before Han's shot got in.
  • This also means the Mr Teatime and The Saint of Killers are really Altaïr, among others. I guess that means Altaïr is a Time Lord, too.
    • Possibly, although it's also possible that they are alternate versions of Altaïr, which the Altaïr we know killed. This would mean that Altaïr is The One.
• What about all the people who were killed with Death Notes?
  • Writing down the cause of death does not determine how a victim dies, it just tells Altaïr what to make it look like.
    • So Deathnotes are actually just Altair's hitlists?
    • Here, I'll just write "Altair. Accident. Attempts to kill the person writing this, and accidentally knifes himself in the face". Let's see if it causes a Divide By Zero.
  • If both Death Note deaths and "normal" deaths are really caused by Altaïr then what significance does a human's natural lifespan have?
    • A natural lifespan is how long Altaïr's masters (whoever that may be) let you live. Hence: 'only the good die young.'
    • Therefore humans would have extremely long life spans if it wasn't for Altaïr.
    • The point humans stopped having 400 year life spans in the bible was when Altair was created.
• What about the people Kratos killed?
  • Altaïr got there first, utilizing the shadow of Kratos's weapons (or Kratos himself) as cover.
• Also, what about all the times where the reason nobody saw Altaïr is because Altaïr wasn't there?
  • Altaïr is never 'not there'. Altaïr has encoded himself into the cosmic microwave background of the universe.
• You mean to say that it wasn't the Ninth Doctor who supposedly wiped out both the Time Lords and the Daleks, but Altaïr? Using some totally sweet Arabian Ninja time travel magic?
  • Well, as noted above, Altaïr is also a Time Lord, so it's not too surprising that he's got access to time-traveling technology.
• Wait, that means that Altaïr threw the spear that killed Wash!
  • And Book only thought he was shooting down the ship that killed Haven. In reality, Altaïr pinned the blame on the Alliance by killing everyone on that ship, and crashing it by Haven right after he killed everyone there.
• Alternatively, Altaïr only killed the people who stayed dead after all it seems odd that the world's greatest assassin could be foiled by a phoenix down.
  • Death probably retroactively hired Altair after the Dr. McNinja fiasco. Only time will tell if The Doctor can do the impossible (keeping in mind Kamina himself failed at this task.)
    • Pfeh. Altair is in league with the McNinjas. Anyone who beats Death earns A-man's grudging respect.
• It's interesting to note that since nobody stays dead in comics, they must come back to life and usually do so as themselves rather than regenerating (even if they are Time Lords). Thus, the only conclusive death we have is Uncle Ben's; Altair must be keeping him in an unescapable prison. Possibly he's stuck in the barriers of reality, and is punching them?
  • It's also quite possible that the reason Wolverine never stays dead is because the archangel he fights to come back to life is actually Altair and, assassin nonpareil though he is, Altair isn't the best of fighters.
    • Also because his voice-actor means that Wolverine is Jesus.
• So, does this mean Altaïr is God in the Aqua Teen and Demented Cartoon Movie universes?
• Wait! But Altair ALSO loses synchronization when he hurts anyone who is neither ostensibly evil, or one of his assassination targets! Which, of course means either he has only killed off all the bad guys in any given work of fiction (still an impressive kill count), or someone is giving him assignments...
  • Thusly, if we go by the Trope Pantheons... Spongebob Squarepants is responsible for every non-evil character's death in the known multiverse. Obfuscating Stupidity on a whole 'nother level.
    • If that's true, then Scar is responsible for every set of dead parents.
    • What happens if Spongebob tells him to kill Chuck Norris?
    • In connection with the theory that all voice acted characters are the same person, this explains perfectly why Starscream can never kill Megatron. (That, and it's a kid's show.)
  • You only lose synchronization because you're killing people off schedule.
  • Once you beat the game, and go back to completed memory blocks, you don't lose synchronization for killing innocents.
• Wait! You also lose synchro with Altaïr in the final battle: when Al Mualim uses the Treasure to blind Altaïr, it's represented by the Synchro bar depleting to deadly levels. This means that the real Altaïr is also completely immune to the Templar Treasure. And, by extension, all forms of mind control/illusion.
• So Altaïr killed Bambi's mother?
  • Only if you're suggesting that Bambi's mother is evil. Which, at this point, I would not at all be surprised by.
• I DECREE ONE EXCEPTION: Kamina is so badass that he made sure he died before Alitair showed up.
  • As did L.
  • Well hold on, we can't have exceptions all over the place. They possibly paid Altair very well (some cool shades from Kamina, a strawberry from L).
  • If you can beat Altaïr at a game of chess, you're removed from The Schedule and can die on your own terms.
    • It wasn't Suzaku that killed Lelouch, they got Altair to do it. The Code may have rendered him immortal and a botched assassination would've ruined everything they worked for, so they got Altair to make sure Lelouch stays dead when he dies. The Code doesn't work against Altair.
• So it turn out Altair shot J.R.
  • But if you pinch Wendy's Uctions you can defeat him.
• It's fortunate that nobody dies in Bleach, since Altair is dreading having to one day face Zaraki Kenpachi.
  • Actually Altair is Zaraki's Bankai and so the reason no one realy dies is because he doesn't know how to release it... YET.
  • Altair fearing anyone? Even if this is Zaraki, this is but a jest. The reason Altair doesn't show up there is because they're not on his hit list.
  • Uh... he hasn't shown up there because just about everyone in Bleach is Dead To Begin With.
• Hole On, Do that mend that Joshua didn't kill Neku, But Altair DID?!
• Where does Ezio figure into this? Is Ezio just Altaïr in the future (having gotten amnesia perhaps?) or is he one of Altaïr's apprentices?
  • Altair, Ezio and Desmond are all the same person, but they play the Identical Grandson to avoid people thinking he's immortal. Not that he can't deal with it, but it's just too much hassle and there are a lot of people to kill.
    • If Altair, Ezio and Desmond are the same person, and Altair is also a Time Lord, this means that throughout his life Altair has not require the use of a SINGLE regeneration since he still looks the same! Compare this to The Doctor who has gone through numerous regenerations already in his nine hundred years life and you can see The Doctor is quite the wuss compared to Altair. (Altair is at least nine hundred years old too since he was active from the 12th century to the present age)
• Wait, wait, does this mean that Altair also killed off all of the Time Lords and the Daleks during the Last Great Time War? The Daleks I can understand, but why the Time Lords too if Altair is also a Time Lord himself?

• This may possibly be what happens to victims of the Death Note too.
  • Which means we all should be VERY scared of Aquaman. Very, very scared.
  • However, Ezio can enter water, and depending on how he relates to Altaïr, this fact may or may not be disproved.
  • Ezio is the one who kills the targets in the water.

Observe the following facts:

• The Death Notes are merely hitlists for Altaïr
• If the same name is written in two Death Notes, the one which was written earlier will take effect
• However, if the diference in the time of writing between the two is inferior to 0.06 seconds, none will take effect.

The seemingly arbitrary time limit becomes logical when you take Altaïr into acount. Esentially, it takes Altaïr 0.06 seconds to check all existing Death Notes and the go all around the multiverse killing the adequate people. If both Death Notes get written while Altaïr is killing other people, he cannot tell which one came first, and thus kills noone. So this implies two things: It takes time for Altaïr to move around, and he cannot travel through time, as in that case he could just go check the exact moment of writing.

Taking into account all of the above, it becomes clear and much more reasonable that rather than actually killing his targets, Altaïr uses other characters or arranges "accidents" and the like to take them out. He's the very idea of taking a life given form. Basically, Altaïr is Death's favorite costume.

• Ergo, he is currently enslaved to two young children.

• Transformers (in some cases, including the original cartoon, these canonically share the same universe!)
• Cloverfield

• Pushing Daisies
• Wonderfalls
• Supernatural
• Reaper
• Dead Like Me
• X Men. Heroes takes place before it beconmes know that people are developing superpowers. When the world finds out, they are called mutants.
• Journeyman
• The4400
• Ranma 1/2
• Watchmen 1st Corollary: Ozymandias worked with Adam and Linderman. 2nd Corollary: Watchmakers hold the ultimate power.
• StarTrek Just off by 200 years.
• Dark Angel
• Painkiller Jane
• Sanctuary
• Witchblade
• Dark City
• The X Files
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel.
• Torchwood and thus Doctor Who (and Claude IS the Doctor)
• Fringe
• Cloverfield
• Good Omens
• Marvel's Civil War
• The Matrix
• Battlestar Galactica post-series
• Bio Shock (the catalyst is A.D.A.M.)
• Death Note the Kiras are Evolved Humans and L's taskforce are Cape Busters.
• Birds Of Prey
• Smallville
• The Cthulhu Mythos
• Power Rangers
• Men In Black
• Dragonball Z
• CSI
• Highlander
• Charmed
• The Simpsons
• Harry Potter
• The Dark Knight trilogy
• Saw
• The Incredibles
• Lost
• Phineas And Ferb
• Push
• The royal families of Dune are the descendents of the Petrellis (A Spotlight Stealing Squad family of magnificent bastards and/or emos that have won the Superpower Lottery).
• As is the Uchiha Clan.
• ...and they all share Darth Vader or Darth Revan as a common ancestor.

• HAL 9000
• GLaDOS
• The Planet Express ship's A.I.
• Shodan
• Skynet
• BI66ER
• Nomad
• Normad
• The Patriot AI of Metal Gear Solid 2
• XANA
• Morgana
• WOPR / Joshua from War Games
  • Therefore, said team was led by Professor Falken.
• AUTO
  • Which just might mean that said team was funded by Buy 'n Large.
• CABAL
• Durandal (and by extension, Leela, Tycho and Traxus)
  • Which means that Bernhard Strauss was another member of the programming team
• Mendicant Bias
• Friend Computer
• Windows Vista
• The Maverick virus
• Mother Brain (both of them).
• Deus
• The MCP
• The B.R.A.I.N.
• A.M. (And I Must Scream)

• Professor Falken, who led the team.
• Franz Hopper
• Harold Hoerwick
• Doctor Emmett Brown
• Doctor Brown
• The Doctor
• Dr. Tadashi Hikari and/or Dr. Thomas Light
• Dr. Albert Wily
• Academician Prokor Zakharov
• Bernhard Strauss
  • One of the team's goals was to create the holy grail of cybernetics - a stable rampant AI.
• Dr Catherine Halsey

And could pay each other a visit, time period permitting.

• The Scooby Gang of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Belmonts of Castlevania
• Dante of Devil May Cry
• The Night and Day Watches
• The Magiranger and the Mystic Force Power Rangers as well
• The Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad
• The Scooby Gang of... well, Scooby Doo.
• Ayase Yue, however Library Island probably has a fair count of books on the above subjects as well.
• Lazarus Long and Yuko Ichihara

• The various Digital Worlds
• Virtual Reality
• Lyoko (prototyped as Xanadu) and its Replikas
• The World

ENIAC's younger sibling, UNIVAC, is insanely jealous that it didn't get to create any worlds, and is currently plotting a terrible vengeance. PC and Mac spend nearly every offscreen moment trying to keep the crazy old man in check.

Technically, that bit about the Digital Worlds is Digimon canon via the Japan-only video games.

• Tron
• Reboot
• Digimon
• Megaman Battle Network and Star Force
• Shadowrun (prior to 2064, anyway)

Jossed in the case of DMFA, as that is set in Furcadia...

• Mork, AKA Jesus
• Bono
• The Doctor
  • AKA Kyon
• Captain Jack Harkness
  • And because Calvin becomes Jeremy Duncan, who becomes Frazz, who becomes Ed Norton's character in Fight Club, and he becomes Jack, all of the above people are also avatars of Robin Williams
• My Pet Monster. Seriously, look at the thing.

• Yangchen (duh)
• Kuruk (duh)
• Kyoshi (duh)
• Roku (duh)
• Aang (duh)
• Luke Skywalker
• Ash Ketchum
• Naruto Uzumaki
• The Doctor
  • And it logically follows that the Avatar is a Time Lord. He/she just has a slightly different method of regeneration.
    • And Katara is his companion (First row, third panel)
  • To be precise The Doctor (formerly known as Iroh) was the avatar immediately before Yangchen.
• The Singer of All Songs, in the book of the same name
• This would also mean that Naruto is the first Airbender after Aang, if the magical-ninja-element-litmus-test is to be believed.
• Merlin
• Abraham Lincoln
• Steve Wozinak
• Yugi Moto/Yami (The Avatar of Card Games)
• Jaden Yuki (The Second Avatar of Card Games)
• Yusei Fudo (The Third Avatar of Card Games)
• Harry Potter
• Ellis
• Renee Tempete (I Hate Gallant Girl)
• Captain Planet
• Omi from Xiaolin Showdown. He even mastered all four elements and entered an erstaz Avatar State in one episode!
• Wall-E
• Near
• Superman
• Sankt Kaiser Olivier. She's worshipped due to the fact she broght a very large war to a peaceful conclusion, if that isn't enough to show that someone's the Avatar nothing is.
• Storm from X-Men complete with Glowing Eyes of Doom
• Altair (He Assassinated all the other ones.)

Sometime after the events depicted in Oban Star Racers, Avatar Jordan realized that a single being having that much power was a bad idea, and decided to divide the powers so each planet would have its own (much weaker) avatar. He also made it so that when an avatar died his/her avatar spirit would transfer to someone else as opposed to determining the next avatar via a race.

• Alternatively, it's the other way around after several generations of avatars, one was powerful enough to maintain balance throughout the universe galaxy, be for most intents and purposes immortal , and could even alter the nature of the avatar cycle. He/She feared that the next avatar would become corrupted by the avatar's power and created the Great Race of Oban to decide on a successor rather then relying fate/luck/the-avatar-spirit's-judgment. (Presumably, people who were likely to become corrupted would try to kill their opponents during the race if they thought they could get away with it. Furthermore, those same people would be more likely to be sabotaged by angered teammates).
• Given the fact that the Avatar is unable to leave Oban, and the presence of monkey/lions (called "Drudgers") we can conclude that Oban is the planet that Avatar The Last Airbender takes place on.

Robotnik, who is also a Time Lord, is clearly able to construct any machine regardless of size in a very short period of time. Just look at the Death Egg in Sonic the Hedgehog II or the mechanized cities shown in all of the games. It stands to reason that Robotnik, who has never been shown as a patient, rational person, must do SOMETHING to avert his boredom. That and the fact that he never seems to build enough to ever defeat Sonic, must obviously mean that he takes on side jobs.

In Sonic Adventure, given his ability to build a massive, several mile fortress during the ten minutes or so that it takes for Sonic to escape the Egg Carrier after he leaves, assuming the fortress is about 100,000 tons, it stands to reason that he is able to build at a rate of approximately 2.777 tons of machinery per second. With this information, the only logical conclusion that one can come up with is that Dr. Robotnik has singlehandedly built every last machine in existence in any work of fiction. Everything from the Death Star to the time traveling DeLorean to KITT is his handiwork. If anyone else claims credit for his work, they are just simply dirty liars. Anyone shown to be physically working on anything is either pretending or otherwise got a DIY kit from Robotnik.

• Which of course means that Robotnik is also the Void Dragon of C'tan fame, which is convenient, seeing as the Void Dragon controls time.
• This also means that he made the TARDIS and is therefore a Time Lord, his title is The Engineer, and the Engineer from TF 2 is one of his regenerations. Going with that, Sonic is working for rival Time Lord The Spy, and The Scout is one of his regenerations.

Name changes happen to protect the innocent, and memory wipes are generally done by Haruhi Suzumiya or the Ministry of Magic. Alternate universes may also be involved. Characters that are obviously the same age as another have drunk from the Holy Grail. For example:

• Sam Tyler is the Master. So is the Emperor Claudius.
• Claude from Heroes is The Ninth Doctor, having used the Chameleon Arch to become one of the "heroes". Logically, this means that Hiro sent Sam Tyler back in time.
• Hiro must be some sort of future Time Agent, as he's worked undercover as a urologist in Sacred Heart Hospital and a bathroom attendant in the Amazonian mansion of a certain Triad ping-pong master.
  • Given that Sulu is his father, this isn't too surprising...
• Steve the Pirate from Dodgeball is a distant ancestor of Wash and is himself a descendant of Wat from A Knight's Tale.
• Agent Casey from Chuck is a distant ancestor of Jayne.
  • Of course Agent Casey is the son of Animal Mother.
• Jane from Coupling is Claire from Jekyll.
  • Also Coupling-related: Commodore Norrington somehow travelled through time, changed his name, and adopted an insecure, snarking persona called Steve.
• John McClane survives the plague that destroys the world and is sent back to the past to prevent it.
• Once all vampires on Earth are wiped out, Buffy the Vampire Slayer becomes Daphne from Scooby-Doo to clean up the remnants. None of the other members of the Scooby gang know this, though all the Scoobies do.
• The wacky adventures of George Michael from Arrested Development did not end with Superbad, as he got Juno pregnant in later life.
• Every role played by Morgan Freeman is God. A logical extension of this is that Morgan Freeman is the voice actor for Haruhi Suzumiya.
  • Therefore Morgan Freeman is Aya Hirano, Wendee Lee, and Patrica Ja Lee (and by extension the Pink Space Ranger.)
• Some time after the events of Quantum Leap, Sam Beckett leaped into the body of Captain Archer of the starship Enterprise. This would initially appear to be ruled out by the fact that Sam can only leap within his own lifetime, but consider that the ending of Quantum Leap stated that Sam never stopped leaping. The series also followed a form of San Dimas Time with the other person inhabiting Sam's body in his time. Putting this together means that Sam must survive to the 22nd century and beyond, putting the events of Star Trek Enterprise within his lifetime.
  • Alternatively, he leapt through a "DNA link" as he did with an ancestor in the Civil War. Caprtain Archer must have been a descendant.
• River Tam is actually a Terminator. Which really explains a lot.
• The video game version of Will Turner is actually one of many secret identities of the video game version of Superman, who is also a vampire that may or may not be Dracula. He was originally Karasu of Noein, where he gained the ability to travel through dimensions, and was bitten by another dimension's Dracula while using the alias "Hector". This also explains the true identity and motives of Itachi Uchiha, making him an all-powerful dimension-traveling vampire superhero ninja pirate. The inevitable result is for him to become the most badass freakin' Overlord in the cosmos.
• Nikola Tesla and Pontius Pilate are the same person, both Earthly incarnations of Jareth the Goblin King, who also once fell to Earth, and a few years later, came back to tell us of a starman waiting in the sky. Then he had a bit of a singing career.
• Put it this way: the Narrator from Fight Club's mental personality disorders didn't end with the death of Tyler Durden...
  • And, as we can see in the movie Primal Fear, it even began three years before the events of Fight Club!
• Prior to the movie First Contact, Captain Picard somehow wound up back in Earth's past where he became a sea captain under the alias of Captain Ahab. Starfleet didn't track him down until years after he ended up there and beamed him out in the nick of time before he was eaten by The Whale. They then had to bring him back to the 24th century, shave off the hair (or what little) of it he'd grown, regrow his leg via some sort of surgery and somehow managed to restore his sanity. This would explain how he was able to recite the lines of Moby Dick in the aforementioned movie. At some other point in his life Captain Picard travelled back in time to become Professor Xavier.
  • This would mean that Captain Picard is a Time Lord.
    • Well, he'd have to be, to wind up plotting Emperor Tiberius's overthrow (which he failed miserably at, no less).
• Bret Hart is an immortal, as he was apparently running around in the old west, and yet was a wrestler in the modern day. His career ended, not due to Post-Concussion Syndrome from a sloppy kick by Bill Goldberg, but in order to maintain the Masquerade.
• Charlie from NUMB3RS will invent time travel and strand himself in the future, where he will rename himself Mr. Universe.
• As noted below, because Johnny Depp ("Captain Jack" Sparrow) and John Barrowman ("Captain Jack" Harkness) are the same person, they also share all of their roles.
  • Actually, Jack began life as Edward. Having graduated to high school (and gaining some hands along the way), he joined a teenage police force. Discovering his natural talent for leadership, he went on to become a Captain, but then decided that the piratey life wasn't for him, and so switched to business - the chocolate business.
    • And, of course, Jack's predecessor at the chocolate factory was Lex Luthor. All the candies and devices with weird, magical effects are actually prototypes for weapons to be used against Superman.
    • Gene Hackman and Gene Wilder are different people! Why not say Morpheous started out quoting the bible to punks and then decided to walk the earth, which is how he became a Spiritual Kung Fu mother fucker.
• See here for some of the more... interesting implications.
• An interesting non-sci-fi case is of one Delia Fisher. After graduating high school, she attended North Central Polytech and started going by her middle name, Lizzi. After being president of that college's Zeta Beta Zeta sorority, she was hired by the National organization to be a clean-up consultant, getting delinquent chapters, like a certain scandal-plagued chapter in Ohio, back on the right track. She then becomes a computer tech for the FBI and is dispatched to Port Charles, New York to bring down the local mob, while imitating the Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness of the local mob hacker lackey. Oh, and in her spare time, she's an assistant for a crazy-haired guy in a green lab coat.
• An exception to this rule is Henry "Mud" Jones III, who instead has a heckuva case of identical grandson going on- he has two daughters. One marries "Sparkplug" Witwicky, and the other marries Stanley Yelnats, and both have children identical to their father.
• During her stay on Earth, Guinan was at one point a nun in an abbey under the name of Sister Mary Clarence. She also somehow managed to become a judge and ended up trying Rocky and Bullwinkle.
  • And then wound up hosting a morning talk show with several other women...
• The Doctor has had two run-ins with Sun Hill Police once in his Seventh incarnation and later in his Tenth incarnation. The Tenth Doctor is also Casanova, Edward Eddington and Barty Crouch Jr.
• Uhura is Micah's grandmother.
• And Number One is Nurse Chapel's sister and Lwaxana Troi's aunt. And used her voice for the Federation computers. And is the mother of Robin Lefler. (Actually true in the Expanded Universe.)
• The Phantom's disfigurement is a scar from a wound received in the Battle of Thermopylae. See also: Purgatory.
• The Green Cross Code Man later turned to evil and became Darth Vader.
• Laura Roslin is actually a gifted-children's piano teacher from the 20th century, who later married the president.
• Captain Jack and Elizabeth Swann found the Fountain of Youth. Unfortunately, Elizabeth accidentally drank a little too much of its water and regressed to babyhood, so Jack arranged for her to be adopted by one Mr. Bennet.
• Christian Bale is actually Batman. In a dystopian future, he is forced to lead a human rebellion against Skynet after they kill Robin. He must let the world think that Bruce Wayne and Batman are both dead. This eventually drives him completely around the bend. This is in fact the second rebellion he has led in a dystopian future.
• This means all of Catherine Tate's characters on her show and Donna Noble are the same person. (However, given Lauren dies in the Christmas special of the former show, this might not work.)
  • She didn't die. She was recruited by Davy Jones.
• Frasier eventually travelled to the future and became a starship captain. Unfortunately, he repeatedly crashed it into the Enterprise-D.
  • You'd think he'd have better reflexes, all things considered. On the other hand, given his record commanding military vehicles under the alias of Thomas Dodge, I guess it's not terribly surprising.
• Lois Lane eventually moved to Wisteria Lane. At some point, H.G. Wells took her to the 24th century where she had a stint as a transporter operator on the Enterprise-D.
• Marcie Ross was by far the most popular person in her assassination class. She received so much attention that it actually turned her visible again. Since she had already lagged behind in certain areas, mostly dealing with killing, the government simply retrained her as an FBI agent. She was released back into society under the name Audrey Hanson.
• Sometime in the near future, the Connors move to Odessa, Texas. As part of their cover, John takes the name "Zach". His encounter with the Haitian kinda messed up his chances of becoming the leader of humanity, but by that point it was too late for Skynet - Micah could shut down Skynet without even thinking about it.
• Elrond eventually dies, and his soul is reincarnated as a revolutionary in dystopian England. When the Transformers come to Earth, after the Norsefire party falls, Megatron bases his voice on the fighter as a scare tactic. Later, after Megatron is defeated and the Autobots leave, some rogue Decepticons establish The Matrix, and make the man of the voice of their leader into an enforcement program. Whew.
• That would make large chunks of Schindler's List into a fight between Qui-Gon Jinn and Voldemort. Admit it, you thought that sounded AWESOME before your conscience kicked in...And if they made the lightsaber and Voldemort's spells show up in color (green) while still keeping the rest black-and-white, not even Jiminy Cricket would be able to keep from thinking it was epic. (i'm so going to hell...)
• After drowning in a sea of blood, Pedro is reincarnated as Ganondorf and loses his compassion in the form of Donkey Kong. Incredibly NO!
• The Ruby In The Smoke was actually an adventure with The Eleventh Doctor and Rose Tyler.
• Cassie (A Chorus Line) eventually leaves theatre, dyes her hair blonde, and teaches drama at Albuquerque's East High.
• After faffing about being an odd-job man for long enough, Bert decided to settle down with someone, had two kids and invented a flying car. After all that he trained for a medical degree and ended up becoming a physician in an American Hospital.
• Maria Von Trapp is Mary Poppins. She was also the Queen of Genovia and Far Far Away and eventually ended up looking after a hyperactive six year old.
• Every character played by Robin Williams is actually Genie.
• Jethro from Doctor Who episode Midnight is Merlin.
• Wait, so Jim Lovell is Forrest Gump and Charlie Wilson?
• But this would mean that Dr. Ellie Arroway got attacked in a park and killed a whole bunch of people...
• The Mad Hatter is Willy Wonka. He may also be Edward Scissorhands and Captain Jack Sparrow.
• Dylan Moran is an interesting case. He started out as a thief called Rufus. Then, presumably with the money he has stolen, he started a little book shop, which became run down and unpopular due to its owner's rampant alcoholism. Later, when the book shop finally went bankrupt, Rufus!Bernard changed his name and cleaned up his act, only to die in a fatal zombie-related accident.

• ...which has truly frightening implications for Mel Blanc and Megumi Hayashibara.
• SO HARUHI IS KONATA! I KNEW IT!
  • She can also be either Faye Valentine and Yoruichi Shihouin or Misa Amane.
• This means Eeyore is secretly Optimus Prime.
  • That actually makes sense. Ponder this: All of Cybertron, all the Decepticons, and all the Autobots (except him) are destroyed in a nuclear war started by the humans. Prime becomes jaded beyond belief, but part of him still doesn't want to let go of his faith in humanity. Thats when he finds the young Christopher Robin...
• Fritz the Cat is The Easter Bunny. And Pogo Possum too (actually Pogo is both Fritz the Cat and Rocky the Flying Squirrel).
• This has rather disturbing AWESOME implications for fans of Digimon.
  • For starters, little T.K is also a reality warper, an Otakin of said reality warper and simultaneously a werecat-ninja and a tomboyish schoolgirl but when he grows up, he becomes a smiling psychopathic Shinigami traitor and a chain-smoking, trench-knife wielding mentor. to Sora who is his bratty blonde pupil with a crush on Simon and Suzaku and at the same time existing as a cute widdle Arrancar. Then, Sora teamed up with Axel (who was her teacher at the ninja academy) and Jerimiah Gottwald(who had been reincarnated from a slain Alucard) to work under a disguised Lord Genome (who at the time was Chad in disguise) at DATS to fight Takuya Kanabara(who in a past life was Henry Wong) and the Bio-Tamers (I'll give you a minute to let that sink in...). So, Jeremiah later experienced a temporal shift (which some believe to be the work of Mikuru Asahina masquerading as a DATS Bridge Bunny) and was reincarnated as a snarky high school student who eventually had to kiss T.K. to stop the world from ending. That's RIGHT: Jeremiah Gottwald kissed T.K.!!! Oh...oh God...WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!
• Optimus Prime and Megatron from Transformers Armada later become Optimus Primal and Megatron from Beast Wars.
• Timmy Turner was once Ben Tennyson. Clearly someone had it in for Ben and decided to warp reality. And later Timmy was reality warped into Sari Sumdac. And, since Marvel UK has shown connections between the Whoniverse and the transformers multiverse, it can be concluded that the one responsible (for the first reality warp) is "Paradox". And Sari later grew up to become Tara the cheerleader.
  • Sasuke Uchiha took over Ben Tennyson's original place in the world. Orochimaru was lying about having power over him. How he turned his eyes green is anybody's guess, though. Hey, you try to explain why older Ben suddenly looks so scene with the tight jeans and racing jacket.
  • The same mind for the second reality warp was likely the same mind who transformed Spongebob Squarepants into Starscream. The original contributor said that whoever it is is the greatest Reality Warper ever.
    • For that matter, Optimus Prime is Megatron (as are Grimlock and Lugnut). He is also Sesshomaru, Treize Khushrenada, Professor Xavier, Protoman.EXE, Soun Tendo and the Enzyte guy.
    • The fact that this the same theory means Soun is Sesshomaru means Ranma is Inuyasha has some unfortunate conscequences for Ranma and Akane.
  • Also, Ben Tennyson/Timmy is somehow Bubbles and Raven. Don't ask.
  • Alternatively and more comprehensively, and Iggy Koopa, Barbara Gordon, Bubbles, Timmy Turner and Poof, Dil Pickles, Rikku, Tara the Cheerleader, Raven, Omi, Ember McLaine and Penelope Spectra, Princess Clara and Toot Braunstein, Presea Combatir, Ben Tennyson, Sari Sumdac, Seth the immortal pirate, and Huntress are all half organic/half cybertronians (via DNA scanning as protoforms), who all came from the same protoform batch, and were separated at "birth". None of their parents has yet had the courage to give them The Talk about where babies really come from (specifically, metal pods full of baby-shaped silver goo, which you apply DNA to, resulting in an instant child).
    • Among other things, this explains where the Koopalings came from (presumably, the other Koopalings came from other batches of protoforms). Only one of them, Sari, shows signs of their heritage because she was the only one to be exposed to Allspark radiation.
• Captain Picard eventually travels to the far future where the United Federation of Planets has fallen and technology has run backward due to human pollution and becomes Lord Youpah.
• After curing his people, Odo somehow found his way into a world of cats and decided to blend in with everyone. Given he's a shapeshifter, this wasn't too difficult.
• Bruce Wayne at some point has Fox build a device which warps the fabric of space and time, creating a portal between Wales and Ingary, and becomes The wizard Jenkins.
• Thusly, Code Geass R2 will end with Suzaku Kururugi undergoing a class change into a Paladin and acquiring a drill-powered Mangekyou Omnitrix (which draws upon the power of Skeith) while wearing a teddy bear mask, and Lelouch stopping him after inheriting Zangetsu and the Red Queen, which needed to be reforged with the Zeo Crystal, and Vash's Angel Arm, which he will activate via ESP and a Compac Drive. His swordsmanship will be a mixture of Alvein-style and Sigmund-style, and he will display the ability to use Jonin level and Eblan-style ninjutsu. Also, whatever the hell Rossiu can do. Needless to say, he's led a busy life.
  • In Japanese, that means that Lelouch will break up has broken up *cough*delinquent*cough* Student Council President*cough* the Euphinator with the Sword of Seals and Suzaku using his invariably large harem.
• And let us not forget: Garfield is Peter Venkman!
  • Doubly fun - Peter Venkman is Garfield!
• Nagi is secretly Xelloss. But this is, in fact, completely obvious.
  • In addition, Yuuichi is a de-militarized version of Sousuke Sagara. Think about it...both hang around with Tsundere Not-Girlfriends, have trouble truly understanding women in general, and get caught in the middle of sticky situations very often.
• If this is true, then that means Sakata Gintoki was also a Time Lord before regenerating into Kyon's present form. His copies of Shonen Jump predicted the future.
  • Along the way, he stopped by Prohibition-era America to do a little mechanic work/gang business/being melodramatically homocidal in the form of Graham Spector.
  • And Kyon later regenerated into Thomas H. Norstein.
    • Kyon created is Jeremiah Gottwald...or maybe Overlord Zetta in human form.
    • Which means Haruhi's powers are actually a Geass (thus explaining why Kyon never gets rewritten) and by extension Sasaki has a Code.
    • This also means that Kyon's actual name is Togusa. After Britiannia invades, he changes into a full cybernetic body before Brittiania suppresses the technology and hacks their databases to fake his identity. (The Major takes the place of Brittianian Royalty and gets really into character.) One of his distant relatives is A Translvanian Prince. Being A Time Lord, he's held a ton of jobs anyway, ranging from Mech pilot to the head of the British Library's secret intelligence division - this makes them all Time Lords...oh, and he's a Slider
    • And he has the Mangekyou Sharingan.
    • Finally, he is really Sasuke/Ben/Simon/Keigo/Suzaku/Prince/That Man's brother!
• This also applies to Cree Summer Lincoln, her sister, and her mother. Somehow.
• Invader Zim will somehow actually come up with a world domination plan that will actually attract Earth's attention. Realizing that Zim is Dib's friend (more or less), Professor Membrane will transplant Zim's brain into a human clone interface and shift memories for him to be "born" into the circus. Zim's Irken brain chemistry will give him incredible psychic potential; although a distinct sense of alienation. He gets over it. Chances of Dib reencountering Zim Rasputin and his new employers is rather high.
• Combining this and the previous theory, Luke Skywalker is the Joker.
  • He finally embraced the Dark Side completely, however, and both of the results would make Emperor Palpatine very proud.
  • So does this mean that there is some relation between all of the characters played by Mark Hamill, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jack Nicholson, and Heath Ledger?
    • How could you forget CEASAR EFFING ROMERO?!?!?
    • If the above question is true, then Luke Skywalker is also Trigon.
• Haruhi is Kyon. There is a totally logical explanation that both spoils Vandread and makes the theory less amusing: BC is voiced in the dub by both Wendee Lee and Crispin Freeman.
• After Vegeta's first death and reincarnation in Dragon Ball Z, a part of his soul was lost and remained in the afterlife as Ryuk.
  • Another fraction of his soul was reincarnated as Roronoa Zoro, the "Prince of all Swordsmen". This explains the sword prowess of his son, Trunks. It's hereditary
    • This soul fragment would later become Kazuma Kuwabara, who mirrored Vegeta's anguish about being consistently outdone by his rival. This incarnation came to terms with it at a much younger age than Vegeta himself, and thus developed some skills said rival couldn't duplicate.
    • The next time he died, his soul-fraction became a spark and became the Decepticon Shockblast. (This explains why Vegeta became progressively less evil.)
    • And the third part of him became Captain Falcon!
• On a related note, Setsuna F. Seiei is Kira, and was very pleased to find his Gundam was perfectly symmetrical. Later, he and Crona had a little daddy-daughter talk.
  • Alternately, Setsuna is still Light, but is also Amuro Ray, Dearka Elsman, Quatre, Nightcrawler, Mousse, and Kicker. Some freakin' how.
    • Schizophrenia Mode: Lan Hikari's hand is glowing with an awesome power...Exactly as planned.
    • Nope, Megaman X's hand glows with that power.
• Miss Piggy eventually becomes Yoda.
  • Miss Piggy is, in fact, really just the crossdressing getup for Fozzie Bear.
    • ...who is the Dr. Jekyll to Animal's Mr. Hyde.
    • ...and Scooter got hold of Fozzie's Hyde formula too, which explains Sweetums.
  • Likewise, Rowlf the Dog is Kermit the Frog in a fur suit, while Doctor Teeth is Kermit with a fake nose and beard.
• All right, we all knew someone was gonna say this...that means Hamm, P.T. Flea, the Abominable Snowman, that impression-happy school of fish, the Underminer, Mack, the waiter at Gusteau's, and John are all the same guy. The same applies to Rex and Mr. Incredible Bob Parr's (former) boss.
• Fakir accidentally wrote a story that caused Duck to become a normal teenaged girl, losing her memories in the process. This girl was named Kaname Chidori. Fakir wrote himself into the story as Sousuke Sagara so he could watch over Duck/Kaname. Someone—perhaps another Story Spinner began messing with the story from there, causing Duck/Kaname and Fakir/Sousuke to be transplanted into several other stories, each time causing Fakir/Sousuke to steadily lose his memories but know that he somehow has to stay near Duck/Kaname somehow—these stories include Pretear, Super Gals! and Nerima Daikon Brothers.
• All of Spike Spencer's characters are clearly the same guy after varying levels of childhood emotional abuse. The best-adjusted ones were lucky enough to be orphaned, and it goes downhill from there. And he can't fight back, either. At times, he will insist that he controls his fate, but the end result won't change.
  • By the same token, all of Brett Weaver's characters are reincarnations of the same man, whose only goal in his serial existence is to live past twenty. He's getting closer...
• The ancient king Gilgamesh eventually attained eternal life and youth, becoming known to history as many different great heroes, such as Kyle the Bandit King, Vyse the Blue Rogue, and, er, Tracey, among numerous others. Finally, after his adventures as Van Fanel, he gained an appreciation for good old Earth living and Humongous Mecha. His next identity was an Ordinary High School Student who almost died trying to become a mecha pilot. After that debacle, he trained hard and became a mecha pilot who nearly died trying to become a high school student instead. He survived to early retirement and decided to let himself age a little and become the proprietor of an anime shop. After inadvertantly pissing off Konata/Haruhi/Morgan Freeman/God and being hurled forward to the 22nd century, where he decided to become a mecha pilot again. Unfortunately, he'd gotten rusty, and was shot in the second episode. After "dying", his immortality eventually kicked in, and he tried to redeem himself in a few other space conflicts, though he didn't truly manage it until he wound up in Neo-Japan.
• This means that Dinobot, Rattrap, Waspinator, Silverbolt, Jetfire, Koga, half of Piccollo, Van Hohenheim, Principal Kuno, Wolverine, Duo Maxwell, and a whole crapload of other guys are all [3].
  • That does explain Onua's Deus Ex Machina tendencies...
  • And Duo has a hell of a lot of religious overtones...
  • And now that includes Ali Al Saachez. Mighty is he, indeed.
• And Link is Viral, of course.
  • In an Alternate Universe, he is Shiro, Clovis, and Zaku.
    • Don't forget he's Taniguchi/Minoru Shiraishi and Donatello.
  • He's also Guy Shishioh, Ikkaku, Madarame, and Shiro Amada. The man is a walking ball of hotblood.
    • That means as a teenager, they all were Batsu Ichimonji.
  • While in said Alternate Universe Guy Shishioh is Mikey Simon and Dean Venture. I think my brain just exploded.
    • And at one point Alt. Guy Shishioh and Alt. Viral were both Tristan! Therefore by extension, Link's voice gives him Super Strength!
    • Then Link must be Little Kuriboh, but that's a GUG all on its own.
• The real reason Tohru Honda is so perky? It's to hide her second life as an Italian child assassin.
• When Edward Elric grows up, he will eventually regain the use of his natural arms, but remain with the military...as a member of Mithril. His "skill" with the ladies will serve him well, should he decide to go back to high school, instead. He will then die, shave his head, and become a Shinigami.
• Wait just a damn minute! That means Professor Utonium and Him are the same person! Cree-py.
• This means that means that Azula is also Katara and Sokka's mother as well as Roku's wife, Hakoda is Bumi and alternate universe Tony Montana, June is Kyoshi, Samus Aran, and Sheena, and Iroh is AKU!
  • And Master Splinter, which makes a scary amount of sense.
• This obviously means that Shana is Louise is Nagi Sanzenin is Dark Lemonade is...hold on, this could take a while...
• Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the most deranged villainess in the history of all anime: Suigintomoe! Mwahahahaha!
• This probably explains why she was so quick to jump at the call: Midori Sugiura is Nanoha Takamachi!
  • And Mai Tokiha is really Prier! Well, at least the figures and personality match, anyway. If not Prier, then she could probably teach Nobue Ito a thing or two on being a Cool Big Sis.
• Dr. Drakken's mind was uploaded to escape Kim Possible, and used as the basis for the Bender robots. A millenium of storage saw the record decay, losing all his memory and much of his personality.
  • Also, the same being was progressively reincarnated over and over for good deeds: Richard M. Nixon, Dr Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Professor Farnsworth, Phillip J. Fry - and they're only several of this person's reincarnations.
• The Genie is secretly Homer Simpson. Actually, that would explain a lot about Springfield...
  • Or rather, Robin Williams transferred his Genie powers to Homer for a while until Aladdin and The King Of Thieves.
  • Homer, Krusty, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, and Barney Gumble are all Megavolt in disguise
• Aang was later reincarnated in present day as a boy named Lucas, who saved a colony of ants.
• Underneath his helmet, Captain Falcon is... Prince Edward Chris von Muir of Damcyan, who, after saving the world, secretly left with FuSoYa and Golbez on the Lunar Whale, and became badass in transit.
• JoJo escaped Whoville by becoming a boy named Roxas, who, after joining with Sora, was reincarnated as a chipmunk.
• Sasuke eventually left the continent that Naruto takes place on (which grew into a unified Ninja Kingdom), changed his name, and became a Dark Knight, using his new sword-skills and his curse-mark to great effect while he fought for Baron. The Light of Mt. Ordeals was what it took to finally get rid of the curse-mark.
  • Alternatively, Sasuke is also Ishida Uryu, Rivalz, and Emiya Shiro. Somehow.
    • Simple. Madara made a mistake with the Mangekyo. Sasuke ended up on Britannia, where he hypnotized Mrs. Cardamonde to send him to Ashford, because of the Code's dimension-warping powers and the fact that the Geass is effectively a doujutsu. He's been watching Lelouch and Suzaku fight the entire time and waiting to step in. The vapidness is just an act so no one suspects him.
    • Similarly, the Thought Elevator malfunctioned with his own Mangekyo and sent him to the Bleach-verse. Lather, rinse, and repeat, only with Ishida's 'dad' instead. His 'Quincy' powers are really just chakra techniques.
• Depending on who you ask Kamina is also either Optimus Prime, Makken, Volfogg, and Coach Koujiro, or Gohan (who is also narrates everyone's lives and is his own grandfather), Kiba Inazuka, Aizen Sousuke, Ganju Shiba, Nefertari Cobra and a 400-year-old giant snake named "Nora".
  • The narrator of Gurren Lagann is either Zangetsu and the First Hokage or Lancer and Arsene Lupin III. By extension this make them Old Simon as well. Yes, this mean Simon is Lancer and Lupin III. Did you're brain just explode from the awesome?
• The Brain doesn't just sound like Orson Welles. He is Orson Welles. He is also Father. And, in the future, he is later reincarnated as Lt. Kif Kroker (whose meek nature and putting up with Zapp Brannigan is just an elaborate cover for a plan to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!), Calculon, Lrr, Morbo (who wants you to know that WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!),and many, many others.
• Emperor Charles di Britannia's madness was the result of the very strange experiences he had in his past life chronicling the misadventures of a certain afro-headed maniac.
  • As well a stint as a certain someone whose name is always written LIKE THIS!
    • He is also the reincarnation of of an evil entity who previous forms were Cell, Kagato, M. Bison and Vicious.
    • Wow, Emperor Charles could start a bacon factory if he wanted to.
• After dying, Princess Euphemia eventually found a new job in the afterlife as a Soul Reaper.
  • The Integrated data Thought Entity eventually gets to her and uses her as a human interface
    • And she has created other, more stable and reliable backup interfaces like a stripperific 14-year old with a big gun, a school girl with a fondness for Balsamic Vinegar, the chick with Wind Spirit armor, and a fighter for S.I.N..
• Rita Repulsa never quite got the hang of the whole "conquer the universe" thing, so she simply decided to go for the Netherworld, instead.
  • Meanwhile, Flonne's next bit of training after becoming a fallen angel is to learn how to infuse inanimate objects with souls. This, naturally, will cause everyone in the world to hate her.
• Andrew Ryan is Quark.
• Parts of Simon's soul were placed into the intelligent devices of ancient Velka. (Graf Eisen's Limit Break is a giant drill!)
• In his younger days, Ocelot was a cosplayer/mailman named John Harnet, a.k.a. Destroyman.
• Slade is Hellboy and Firelord Sozin. Meaning he is related to the Joker and Darth Vader.
  • Hell, let's finish the whole damn Fire Nation royal family line: Besides those guys, Sozin (just Sozin) is also Goemon, Kenshiro, and Meito Anizawa. His son is Kingpin and Inferno.
• Amarao would go so far to stop Haruko that he later became the Anti-Spiral.
  • At some point in between, though, he mellowed out and spent some time as a technician.
• Galen Marek's final duel was apparently not with Emperor Palpatine, but with himself.
• Does this mean Nathan Drake is missing a donkey named Farah?
• Depending on the language you select, Rukia Kuchiki is either Chun-Li or Crimson Viper.
  • If she's Viper, she's also Yoko and Etna.
  • And Emperor Charles di Britannia will be either Seth or M. Bison.
• Rin is Maka. This explains why Rin's father is never seen—a Death Scythe must be very busy.
• Going by this Orihime while being herself also is, a blind genius violinist who falls in love with a Beastmaster, Kid Ichigo Kurosaki, and the future Empress of the The New Human Empire who is secretly one of the last three Methuselah.

  • Not to mention two Ensemble Darkhorsees. One is a Genki Girl with Rapunzel Hair and a Cute Little Fang, while the other is a certain Cloud Cuckoo Lander from Azumanga Daioh.

  • Or Orihime is; Hinata Hyuuga, Hanabi Hyuuga, Naruto's Sexy-no-jutsu form, Mikuru Asahina, Akira Kogami, and a creepy Russian magically created homunculus. Not to mention a tone of other kick-ass people. Does this validate her as God yet?
    • C'mon, it's common knowledge that Hinata, Orihime, and Mikuru are the same people.
    • And since Ichigo is also Renton Thurston, that means she gets to fall in love with him all over again (reciprocated this time).
  • Ulquiorra Schiffer (hilariously enough) by this rule, also is: Micheal Trinity from Gundam00, Kami-sama from Saiyuki, and Fai from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. Not to mention he's the Japanese Hannibal Lecter, John Connor, and Frodo Baggins. Dead laughing yet?
  • Grimmjow is Archer, Greed, and Cain Nightroad. Seems like he really likes regenerating.
• Shiori Misaka's sister Kaori is also Sasuke's Servant Saber, and Hiroyuki Fujita's girlfriend.
  • Off of the ToHeart idea, Multi is Minori Kushieda. Both looooove to bathe in the spotlight.
    • And is in a coma.
    • Why didn't Akari ever Excalibur the shit out of Hiroyuki when he was being mean to her?
• So that means that Kaede Fuyou did a turnaround from being a psychotic Yandere to becoming Moe Moe Mikuru towards the same guy? Also, Mikuru can pilot a Knightmare and is a Little Miss Badass. Mordred also has a move similar to Kaede's boxcutter slash. And she's even a girl with a tail fetish who loves art.
  • Said same guy is Rin Tsuchimi and Kyon. But wait, he's also Mr. I-Love-my-boss Mayama. And is Kyonichi/Kyuuichi. And is a random clerk in an anime shop. Working with Gilgamesh. Or was it Kitagawa? Or Sousuke? So Yeah...
    • Consider Lisianthus and Kyon's Sister. Think about that for a second.
• Emotionless Girl Mai Kawasumi is Token Loli Mei Sunohara, . As well as that girl that Light was supposed to marry.
  • When Yuuichi stopped Mai from stabbing herself with her sword, she tried another tactic, this time using a knife and a wall in front of her sister. Instead of blood spurting from her forehead, she fades away in a But Now I Must Go moment.
• Yamato Nadeshiko Nagisa was, for a short while a ditz Expy of Tsukasa Hiiragi in a Drama CD, as well as the best friend of a certain Yaoi Fangirl who was Art Club president.
  • Let's not even get started on that Ax Crazy Hatchet Girl.
    • Taking things further, we have, from a very ''lovely'' village, two creepy Moe Moe (Rika) children (Rena), each having their own (Nipah~) Verbal Tic (Kana, kana?), and then we realize how Nanoha snapped on Teana, and then we've got Mei and Nagisa having girl talk about Tomoya.
• So how come noone's mentioned the fact that Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi are all the same person yet?
• Jeremie and Aelita of Code Lyoko are apparently the same individual. Um, ew? Also Taelia.
• Nagisa and the rest of the Drama Club in Clannad have no idea that Kotomi is a closet otaku.
  • It's also surprising to note that Kotomi didn't have an allergic reaction when Kyou hugged her.
  • She also had a maid who served at her large mansion, whose resume involves participating in the Fifth Heaven's Feel and infuriating her Servant to such a point that he took Berserker over her just because she insisted that life was a huge Boke And Tsukkomi Routine. She ends up playing mahjong afterwards.
    • She also had a fellow maid who, despite being reserved, had a notorious past that involved drawing two of her high school classmates in yuri doujinshi.
• It seems that during a fight at Hakuou Academy that involved Hinagiku Katsura and Puppet Butler, an incarnation of Lelouch vi Britannia, Hinagiku temporarily ignored her feelings for her childhood friend. And started to play mahjong.
  • And when Watanuki vi Britannia Puppet Butler blasted off, he landed in Tachibana Video Rental, smack-dab in Saki's arms. Unexpectedly, Saki did not recoil; instead, she puts his hand on her breast and uses it to blackmail him into joining a Mystery Club of hers, whose spiritual predecessor was the SOS Brigade.
  • Despite the frequency of Hinagiku berating her older sister Yukiji, it's surprising to note that they barely interact with each other as their alternate selves Tamaki and Yuma respectively.
• After a storied romantic past, in which she emerged as the Victorious Childhood Friend after the arrival of two more rivals in the form of princesses, Asa Shigure settled down in a magical town with the adopted son of his friend as his Harem Nanny and taught at the local private school he went to. Upon becoming dissatisfied at how he handled his Unwanted Harem, she left for another town, and decided to vent her anger and frustration by spreading a disease causing the townsfolk to become more and more Ax Crazy and eventually leading to them murdering each other in cold blood.
• Kasumi Tendou, after giving up on Ranma, decided to earn some extra income by working in the Research and Development department of the Britannian army as a lab assistant. She eventually left, fearing for her safety, and decided to move to a small town with Cherry Blossoms, where she met a Hot Blooded young man and eventually had a daughter with him. After their daughter nearly died, she decided to be a stay-at-home mother, and persuaded her husband to open a bakery.
• After graduating at Hakuou Academy at the age of thirteen, the Student Council President Maria moved to another high school to repeat her education, because she literally skipped her way to graduation. However, because of a certain Jerkass, she failed her university entrance examinations, despite having a ten year old prodigy for a friend. She could no longer come to terms with the educational system, so she elected to work in one of Shana's mansions as a maid.
• Chiyo's Dad, after abandoning both his ten-year old genius daughter and his Magnificent Bastard Chessmaster of a son, decided to take up street fighting, until he could fire rainbow colored beams from his hands while wearing a red captain's uniform. He eventually gained enough power, stole his brother's Code, and Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence by becoming the Voice in the Heavens.
• Kazuya Mishima started out as a fighter who made a Deal With The Devil so that he could kill his grandfather, father, and son. Eventually, he gained enough power to warrant Ominous Latin Chanting, and participated in sword fights with Sora and Cloud Strife. Eventually, he got tired of being a villain, so he decided to settle down in the demon realm, where he had a hot, busty daughter with his maid.
• The last thing Tomoya Okazaki and Sanae Furukawa had in mind was that they'd meet as the new incarnations of Greed and Lust.
• Fredrick Little was never the same after his hip injury. His addiction to painkillers and gradual loss of social graces led his wife to divorce him. Alone and depressed, he changed his name and moved to Princeton, where he took up a position as a doctor. However, his vulnerability continued to plague him, and as his mental state degraded, he eventually tried to cure himself by splicing himself with a cockroach. This was effective, but he was dissatisfied by the overall result, and eventually made a bargain with a minor god that restored his humanity and rendered him effectively immortal. Unfortunately, the bargain rid him of his remaining brilliance and thrust him backward in time by several centuries. He's still working his way into the present, scraping his brains back together as he goes. Only time will tell what happens next.

Everybody in the Universe is Little Kuriboh

• He is Dan Green, therefore he's also the rest of his roles and future roles to come. He is also every 4Kids voice actor and their roles (through being the voice of 4Kids itself in Crapsule Monsters). And if we extend it so that every character is his voice actor, many Japanese voice actors are also Little Kuriboh.
  • Since he is Joey Wheeler (and Wayne Grayson), he is also Toshiyuki Morikawa, making him Dante, Sephiroth, Griffith, and even Spider-Man!
  • He is Kaiba, therefore he is Brock, therefore he is Black Shadow, therefore he is Norio Wakamoto!
    • And after his Naruto Parody, he is also MasakoX and Vegeta3986, meaning he is also Bang Zoom! Entertainment, therefore all their characters and their VA's.
    • Also LK has been Naruto twice.
  • LK is Rica Matsumoto since he is Bakura, making him Hironobu Kageyama if you remember Rica and Hiro are alternate gender equivalents.
  • He is also the Narrator for Team Four Star's DBZ abridged, making him Kyle Hebert, which (besides making him Kamina) makes him Wario (through There Will Be Brawl), which makes him Charles Martinet, which makes him Mario!
  • Eventually, you will get to Little Kuriboh being Haruhi Suzumiya (by way of LK -> 4Kids -> Rachel Lillis -> Jessie -> Megumi Hayashibara -> Faye Valentine -> Wendee Lee -> O-Haruhi-Sama!), making him God, a Time Lord, Shinji Ikari, and therefore EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSE!
    • Back to the Megumi Hayashibara thing, LK is also Rei, who is Lilith, and therefore LK is truly in charge of Instrumentality!
    • More proof LK being a Time Lord: Since LK is also Masako X and Vegeta3986, he is also Itachi, which makes him Crispin Freeman, which makes him Kyon, therefore he is a Time Lord.

A barren earth lapped by a toxic sea, with the only survivors hiding in the buried ruins of the 21st century? Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is set After The End of End of Evangelion. Note that when Lord Genome swears to show Viral the secret history of mankind, the first thing he reveals is a wall made of thousands and thousands of 'Angel' skulls.
The Angels themselves? Renegade spiral beings, selfishly using their power to advantage themselves at the expense of other races. After the (literally) earth-shattering abuses of Spiral Power that ended the conflict, the Anti-Spiral appointed Lord Genome to keep the remnants of the human race under control in perpetuity. Adam was sealed inside of a robot and renamed 'Lagann'.

• As a slight addendum to this, the entire Human Instrumentality Project was a plot by the Anti-Spiral, to get the human race to wipe themselves out in their effort to evolve/acquire more Spiral Power. The leaders of SEELE fell for it hook, line and sinker. This also means Rei was an Anti-Spiral mole just like Nia. Afterwards, of course, the Anti-Spiral realized this plot was far too complicated and decided to just drop a moon on them next time.
  • The S2 Engine/Organ generates Spiral Energy. The "Super Solenoid" part makes this obvious.
  • The effects of Instrumentality (everybody abandoning their bodies and merging into a collective cosmic mind) bear a suspicious resemblance to what the Antispirals inflicted on themselves. SEELE were playing with a bootlegged version of the technique without ever fully understanding it.

The Space Monsters from GunBuster and DieBuster? Also spiral beings, patrolling the galaxy to prevent a Spiral Nemesis event such as the one that consumed two thirds of the galaxy in GunBuster and nearly collapsed the universe(!) in DieBuster. If not for their tireless efforts, we'd all be 3 nanometers thin today.

Of course, this also means, at least for Gunbuster anyway, that Spiral Nemesis events don't nessasarly need to be specificly black holes created as a result of evolution, rather, they can be made as a result of evolution alowing indivuduals to do crazy nonsence such as Buster Machine III and it's gambit.

The Medical Mechanica from FLCL, the guys that wanted to 'flatten' human nature until we 'can't even think'? Who could be bankrolling these jokers, but the Anti-Spiral? On the other hand, would you like to guess the form Atomsk first takes when he emerges?

Nadia's Gem, the blue water, is powered by Spiral energy in a sort of round a bout way It uses the spiral energy of the people of Atlantis who have died, in a sort of post human instrimentality. And, lets face it, if any given civilization was going to be able to use Spiral energy before Humanity had it's crack at the whip, the people of Atlantis were going to be that given civilization.

Series that were manga series previous to their animated adaptation being made by Gainax don't count, This disqualifies He is my Master and Melody of Oblivion. They can also be explained by noting that, clearly, both the bad future of M.o.O and the first part of Lagann can't be happening at the same time (And hence, the one that was fully Gainax's doing takes precedent) and He is my Master plays out with the supposed Gainax world, hence all the references that were in that show are merchandise and costume inspirations that happened from seeing all the Gainax shows.

Mahoromantic the anime was an attempt to install dispair into Suguru by the anti-spirals, in the Manga, this refusal to belive in that dispair, and hence belive in spiral energy, was what brought about the ending to the manga.

Kare Kano takes place in the Instrumentality world. Tell me that doesn't explain everything about it.

Hikari and Akari Hoshino are another pair of anti-spiral agents who attempted to wipe out humanity before Gendo Ikari got around to it, but went renegade due to The Power Of Love.

• Alternativly, it takes place after Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gurrenn Lagann and they are supposed to bring about Seventh Impact. Hikari and Akari supported the anti-spiral world view, but were not actually members of the anti-spiral race, and thus were able to survive the destruction of the anti-spirals

Now, where does Otaku No Video fit in?

• How would you even try to go about reconciling the timelines of Gunbuster and Evangelion?

The list includes:

• Jack Harkness
  • Whose immortality means this theory is completely plausible.
• Jack Sparrow
• Jack Aubrey, from Master and Commander and its sequels.
• Jack Shaftoe from The Baroque Cycle. Even though he's not a captain.
• Do they/he intend to get us high tonight, and take us to his/their special island?
  • Well, they do have a tendency to die young shortly after they become good...
• Since Jack could, in that era, be short for James, Captain Hook could also be included here.
• He also wrote some of the best music in the Dance Dance Revolution series.
• And the lead from the 1986 comic "Adventures of Captain Jack". Trust me, he is.
• Harry Kim's uncle

The cosmology fits together too well for it all to be a coincidence. Which shall from now on be known as The "It's a Wonderful Bleached Heart World" universe or IWBH Wiverse for short.

• As a correlation, every Disney and Final Fantasy story ever also takes place within said multiverse.

In canon alone, it's been firmly established that Recess, The Proud Family, Kim Possible, and American Dragon Jake Long all coexist with our favorite scrappy human-alien pair.

Too many coincidences to pass it off as random chance. Draenor's floating landmasses and energy Vorteces are suspiciously akin to those in The End Of The World. The Burning Legion employs tactics similar to those of the Heartless, namely using beings made from negative emotion and fueled by Hunger to assimilate and destroy entire worlds that can be swayed by beings of strong will and power. It can be seen that the KH 'overworld' bears at least a passing similarity to that of the Twisting Nether, with its' flows of energy and worlds suspended within it. It probably wouldn't be far off to think that Illidari Demon Hunters or even Illidan himself trained Riku in the Demon Hunter arts to master his Darkness powers, and bestowed upon him the Blindfold to develop his Spectral sight. It's been shown that they are well-skilled with blades and can metamorphasize into their own Inner Demons(Ansem in Riku's case) in addition to blasts and barriers of dark energy.

Think about it. Loads of worlds, people travelling between them...who says they haven't passed by our own world? Or been to it?

• Consequently, works of fiction are representations of events that actually happened on other worlds, and the creators are the lucky humans who've been showed the truth, and given the responsibility to tell the world about these other worlds, using fiction as a cover so as to not be seen as total loons. Of course, the message gets garbled in translation, and the "creators" don't give the world the hard facts about what happened.

See Kingdom Hearts for reference. There are individuals who serve as go-betweens for the main Organization XIII and the other sections of the universe, and rarely if ever go from one section to another. Possible representatives include:

• Xion: Ino Yamanaka, a representative for Anime. Her soul/heart-throwing power, mostly. If it's not already jossed, it probably will be soon.
• Xykon: Kyon. The original Anime representative. Went rogue and they dumped him into Webcomics, or possibly Tabletop Games.

In both of them, the afterlife is just vague menacing twenty-somethings in dark clothes trying to steal our souls, regulated by a mysterious unseen godlike figure, and people who can't be seen by shopkeepers running away from them.

• But in The World Ends With You, the Reapers are trying to erase our souls, not steal them, and the players run towards Reapers more often then they run away from them. Also, the players can be seen by anyone as long as they're within the range of a modulator decal, and every store has one, so shopkeepers can see the players.

Consider that the Axiom in WALL-E is white. The ship that brought everyone to the Nowhere Islands was called the White Ship. In addition, people destroyed the world in both. Given the themes of Mother 3, it could be inferred that pollution destroyed the world.

This doesn't require much thought. But come on, look at what they have in common:

• They are both clowns
• They both have insane laughter
• They are both homicidal maniacs
• They are both omnicidal maniacs
• They are both Chaotic Evil
• They both outshine any other character ever whenever they're onscreen

They have to be the same person. It's the only way to prevent the universe from being destroyed when they meet. (Not that they would mind, but everyone else would.)

All we need is for Mark Hamill to be cast as Kefka for Dissidia, and this will be vindicated.

• Both characters are also regenerations of The Master.

In The Tin Woodman of Oz, the Tin Woodman is described as a Nobody.

See, when Black Mage siphons love out of the univarse and uses it as a beam of destruction, it takes the form of Hadoken, a ninth-level spell. Meanwhile, Cecil and Rosa use their love to power the Twincast spell Ultima, which Black Mage says belongs to the tenth level of magic, and is supposed to just be a theory. Therefore, Black Mage is weaker then their power of love.

Of course, Domon and Rain probably eclipse the both of them at once, but still.

• Super Soldier Serum
• Chemical X
  • and by extension Chemical Z
• Dr. Flimflam's Miracle Cream: Just a topical form of gene tonic.
• Spinach: The stuff looks like it could be made out of sea slugs.
• Evangelions: They're just heavily-spliced clones of normal humans, with a bit of Angel DNA thrown in for good measure. The LCL in the entry plugs is just a heavily concentrated form of EVE.
• Promicin
• The Spice: Like Bioshock's sea slugs, sandworms are also living ADAM factories.
• The Academy: Psychic powers? Apparent physical combat far outstripping those of unaugmented humans? Blatant insanity? Yup, that's some ADAM.
• Space Marine Geneseed: No-brainer. Big Daddies are just Space Marine prototypes.
• Biotics: Eezo is just another form of ADAM. All biotic abilities are simply derivatives of Telekinesis.
• Metal Gear Solid's Genome Soldiers are just Splicers waiting to happen, which is probably why the Patriots stopped using them after the first game. That, and their massive incompetence.
• No way the whole combining humans and Daleks plan could have ever worked without huge quantities of ADAM. Which explains how the Doctor's Time Lord DNA really got into the hybrids; he just contaminated the ADAM. No magic lightning involved.
• Red Flowers: They must be ADAM flowers. And Mimigas have different effects from exposure to it...
• [[Main/Metroid Phazon]]
• The Catalyst
• Gears from Guilty Gear.

• Dr. Drakken
• Señor Senior Sr.
• Bowser, King of the Koopas
• Dr. Evil
• The Riddler
• Team Rocket
• The Green Grocer
• Sideshow Bob
• Meltdown
• The Order of the Neo-Solar Temple
• The Evil League of Evil., come on, this is a gimme.
• The Brotherhood of Nod
• The Blue Meanies and their associates
• The headquarters from Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny bear more than a passing resemblance to Grandville.

The key to this theory is, not surprisingly, Indiana Jones, because he is... Indiana Jones.

• Indy's old buddy Marcus Brody was the uncle of Martin Brody, the sheriff in Jaws.
• The aliens from CE 3 K were the same as the aliens (excuse me, "interdimensional beings") in Indy 4.
• Alan Grant from the Jurassic Park franchise started to ALWAYS wear a hat after hearing a speech by Dr. Jones when he was in College.
• Indiana Jones, it was mentioned, was a member of the armed forces and the OSS during WWII. He was the original pick to go Saving Private Ryan, but was reassigned immediately when a evil plot by the Nazis to steal a biblical artifact was uncovered.
• Steve himself says the aliens in War Of The Worlds (his and Tom Cruise's version, obviously) were from the same area as ET, or at least from as far away. But much nastier.
  • The ET race was seen briefly in Star Wars: Episode I, so if we could somehow figure out how to make ET fit in with Indy, Jaws, CE 3 K, Jurassic Park or Saving Private Ryan, we could fit George Lucas, Spielberg's best friend, into it. Get to work!
    • Got it. The misguided scientists who tried to dissect ET actually did learn something before ET was rescued, and they later got hired by the corp. creating the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park.
    • The interdimensional beings of Indy 4 retroactivally changed all of the guns from ET into walkie-talkies because they are a peaceful, knowledge-loving race and wanted people to talk more.
• The Indy movie that came out between Last Crusade and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was never shown. It and... the related characters were locked away by Warner Studios sometime in the late '90s and were never heard from again. Rumor has it that they are inside the WB Studio's Water Tower. If it had been made, it would've been the Indiana Jones equivalent of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
• The real reason the Japanese were off the coast of California in 1941 was that Indiana Jones was guest teaching at UCLA at the time.
• Amistad and Schindler's List are both historic events (to varying degrees of accuracy). The main difference here is that in the Spielbergverse they are not Based On A True Story or Very Loosely Based On A True Story, but happened EXACTLY as they are portrayed in the movies.
• The Land Before Time only has an indirect connection, having been merely produced by Spielberg: several of the Jurassic Park dinos are cloned from the main characters.

• Darth Vader.
• Spike Spiegel.
• Aragorn.
• Gully Foyle of The Stars My Destination.
• Vladimir Putin.

The old kingdom is actually part of a shadow which was being devoured by the black road, like Corwin's Avalon. However, through the extensive use of Charter magic (a shadow of the Pattern), it was possible to create the Wall, which doesn't keep the Old Kingdom and the Southerners separate so much as keep the boundary between their universes constant. The events of the series are an analogue of the Fisher King events of the first half of the Chronicles, with most of the main characters being shadows of Amber Royalty. A particularly obvious instance is Kerrigor, who's basically Brand with a bad haircut. "Free Magic" is obviously as shadow of the Logrus, and Sendings are basically lesser versions of Pattern Ghosts.

• G-Stone energy, and possibly J-Jewel Energy
• Getter Rays
• Spiral Energy
• The output of the Lambda Driver
• Trapar
• Allspark radiation
• Cephiro's magic
• AT Fields, or if not those, the output of the S2 Engine.
• The output of the Helical motor
• Bronze Bell Energy
• GN Particles
• Zero Point Energy
• Mako
• QT
• The Morphin' Grid
• The Power to Revolutionize the World!
• ...and this energy is generated by Hard work and guts!
• Pinky Catches act as batteries for this energy.

• ... but it's a dangerous, unrefined state. After Spiral freedom was restored to the universe at large, various planets all began treating it in different ways, each finding its own type of mysterious green energy.
  • One planet failed to control it properly and it drove them to the technological singularity, then assimilating the entire planet and its technology into a world-eating monstrosity: the Getter Emperor, which roves from system to system looking for more life-energy and technological advancement to absorb into itself, with a wave of Getter Rays/uncontrolled Spiral Energy heralding its arrival.
  • Meanwhile, on another planet, a scientist managed to refine raw Spiral energy into a safe, controllable form. That scientist was Cain of the Green World, and his creation was the G-Crystal, a substance with the power and information capacities of Spiral Energy but without the disadvantageous tendency of overflowing and screwing with reality. Abel of the Red World attempted to duplicate his work with the alternate form of energy, that of order and intelligence rather than rage and chaos (possibly the Han-Rasen's analogous power?), and created the J-Jewel, a similarly refined, less dangerous form.

The victorious spirals went on to form The Stellar Republic of the Protoculture.

• Both groups feature spirals quite prominently
• Both groups have the power to win through sheer force of personality.

• Jack Bauer
• Solid Snake
• Nicholas Angel and Danny
• Sam Vimes, who's glad he's not the only cop drinking fruit juice
• Gene Hunt
• Malcolm Reynolds
• Misato Katsuragi
• Stone Cold Steve Austin
• Marcus Fenix
• Cortez Cardinal
• Emerson Cod
• Sgt. Johnson, Sgt. Forge and Sgt. Buck

They keep them shut so they won't be driven mad by the knowledge of when people are going to die.

• This leads to an interesting conclusion. Brock has always chased women all his life, in what may seem to be sheer desperation. With the Shinigami Eye theory, it becomes apparent that Brock is cursed, much like his past life of Miroku. Both have not chased women out of perverseness, but necessity(At least of the thought that they need to continue their lineage).
  • Ichimaru Gin is the most obvious example.
• Alternatively, these same people all possess Geasses, specifically the mind-reading type that Mao had. They keep their eyes shut for fear of their Geasses getting out of control and forcing them to hear everyone's thoughts until they go utterly batty.
• Alternatively-alternatively, they have the other kind of death-perception eyes, and are trying to make sure that they don't eradicate the concepts of existence of everything in their surroundings just by twitching.
• As an alternative to the alternatively-alternative: they all are infected with the Ganpuku mushi. The stress of keeping their eyes open for more than a few minutes, if at all, caused severe dizziness and headaches. The brief glimpses into the future they see even when their eyes are closed is what allows them to get around without smacking into everything. Of course, it also means that it's only a matter of time before their eyes transform completely, force themselves out of their eye sockets, and infect someone else...
• Alternatively-alternatively-alternatively to the alternative, they all have Kaleidoscope Eyes, but want to hide them beacuse they don't want to be labled a Mary Sue.

In the same universe

- The castle in Ocarina of Time has pictures of several Mario characters in the windows.

- Link's Awakening features Goombas, Piranha Plants, Chain Chomps, Wart, and a Croco-lookalike. (The Wind Fish is apparently in charge of Sub-Con)

- Most houses in Link to the Past have portraits of Mario on the walls.

- Super Mario Galaxy has "Electrogoombas", which in actuality are almost indistinguishable from Octoroks. (pink octopuses that spit rocks at you)

- Link was in the bed in Rose Town in Super Mario RPG.

Mario comes first

- The cross-references in the Zelda series are much more prevalent and explicit than the Mario series's.

- We already know there are multiple Links; therefore the Link in SMRPG still fits.

- The Zelda game with the most references to the Mario series that wasn't part of a dream is The Minish Cap (Lakitus and Bob-ombs, among other things), which several theorists believe to be the earliest game in the Zelda timeline.

Corollaries

- Metroid, F-Zero, StarFox, and Pikmin also take place in the same universe, thanks to references in Super Mario RPG and Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour.

- Since F-Zero and Star Fox seem to take place in the distant future, Hinopio is probably a Time Lord.

• Additional evidence to place F-Zero and Star Fox in the same universe: both the arwings and the F-Zero cars are powered by G-Diffusor Systems, and James McCloud appears in F-Zero - one effect of being trapped in the Black Hole was to turn him into a human.
  • Either that, or Fox is a half-fox, half-human hybrid. The human half, obviously, is his vocal cords.
    • And his knees.

- Strange inconsistencies between Pikmin's Earth and our Earth are there because Pikmin actually takes place on the Mushroom World. Nintendo products there are not a problem, as they already exist from the WarioWare games. Real-world brand name products were presumably brought there by the Mario Bros. when they went through the portal.

• This also explains why Peach's crown was in Pikmin 2.

- You want Grand Unified? Here's Grand Unified:

• Kid Icarus takes place shortly after the stone age when Medusa used alchemy to turn people into stone. The Angel Pit didn't like it so he killed her.
  • A few tribes learned to read Medusa's alchemy books and used them to create their own world so they wouldn't have to share power. This explains why the world of Golden Sun looks like ours but is flat because it was created before anyone knew Earth was really round.
    • Maintaining the world was too hard however, so everyone built rocket ships and colonized the solar system seen in Magical Vacation.
  • In the next Kid Icarus game, a demon named Orcos tries to unleash four ancient evils on us. He just barely got one through before Pit found and killed him and the other three ancients spend the rest of their lives trying to follow the first. Their story is told in Eternal Darkness.
• Zelda takes place during the middle ages in a kingdom that is eventually lost.
• At that point, the Oocca had left Earth and were evolving into the Chozo. The dragon Argorok's descendants continued to threaten them. Samus's foe Ridley is part of this lineage.
• Fire Emblem takes place around the same time, on a different Continent
  • ... and one of the games takes place on Terminia.
• When Mario and Luigi were born, they were brought through Mushroom Kingdom before heading to the 'real world'.
• Donkey Kong Country occurs in the jungles of the real world
• The original DK headed to Manhattan and was stopped by Mario, who then takes a job as plumber.
• After this, Mario falls back into the Mushroom Kingdom
• Wario, deciding to capitalize on everything, gets into the Game Industry in the real world (after being continually blocked from riches in the Mushroom Kingdom). He originally starts by selling the Mario story to Nintendo, but eventually forms Wario Ware.
• The DK event resulted in people realizing that sentient animals exist: as a result these animals started coming out of the woodwork, causing some people to live among them (Animal Crossing)
• Wars break out, resulting in Advance Wars.
• Advance Wars days of Ruin happens, resulting in a near-destruction of everything.
• The animals escape the apocalypse by heading to the stars and forming the Lylat System
• Events of Star Fox. Somehow James McCloud is turned human and disappears.
• Further in the future, civilization gets back on track, and the F-Zero circuits are created, and the Metroid and F-Zero series occur.
• Pokemon are created in a laboratory, and due to their hyper-abilities knock out most of the native creatures. After spreading to the midwest of the US, they impose a quarantine around the zone. Some technology remains (such as Pokeballs, based on reverse-engineering the Morph Ball), but otherwise the people forget about everything beyond the wall.
  • A parallel experiment lead to Geist.
• Eventually humanity dies off, and the barrier is dropped: by now various species of Pokemon have become much smaller: plant type pokemon becoming Pikmin. Events of Pikmin.
• Note: All games that reasonably could take place in the real world (such as Punch Out, Wii Sports, etc) do.
• Super Smash Bros is set at the very end; only the main characters of all games remain, kept alive by Contractual Immortality.

- The Kirby games are also linked; the Boos from the Mario series are the ghosts of the denizens of Kirby's world, mostly the Waddle Dees. King Boo, their self-proclaimed ruler, is the ghost of King Dedede.

• Then where does the Earthbound series fit into all this?
  • Eagleland is from the imaginations of the people of Pop Star, and Gigyas is the result of Nightmare, Dark Matter, Zero, Zero-Two, Marx, and Marx Soul's influences.
  • After the defeat of Gigyas, things calm down and the first Custom Robo is created.
• It should be noted that in Kirby's Dream Land 3, Samus and some Metroids show up.

It was put forward in this comic.

• Captain Jack Harkness
• Captain Scarlet and Agent Black
• Marvin The Paranoid Android
• Mr. Immortal
• Vancuria (Nai and Mea)
  • The Saint of Killers' successor/alternate universe counterpart/mild-mannered secret identity, however, only chooses not to kill them permanently, for undisclosed reasons.
• Ash Ketchum (and Team Rocket)
• Starscream (He could technically be killed, but as always his Spark would endure and reincarnate).

• The Doctor
• Jack Bauer
• Kamina

The Badass Gene is activated by a need to kick some serious ass, and manifests in increased strength, reflexes, combat skills, courage, and ability to keep fighting despite severe injuries. See the Badass page for a list of known carriers.

• A carrier may go through their entire life without manifesting. This is how non-badasses have badass children.
• The Badass Gene can also result from mutation, caused by exposure to radiation. This is why people who work in science labs, go into space, or live in post-apocalyptic environments, are more likely to display the Badass Gene.
• Any program to create super-soldiers that involves a screening process to pick out qualified candidates will only select those with the Badass Gene.
• By the 41st Millenium, natural selection has killed off every human being that does not carry the Badass Gene.
  • The universe of Dune is actually the future of the Warhammer 40K universe - after the discovery of Arrakis, humanity successfully got the Tau, Tyranids, Orks etc hooked on spice to such a degree that they became completely apathetic junkies and were easily slaughtered. Humanity itself started taking the spice after successfully purging the galaxy of all non-humans and re-organised into the Great Houses. The Bene Gesserits' actual aim of producing a Kwisatch Haderach was to produce a man so badass he would shake humanity out of its apathy and prepare it for battle against the Necrons - robots can't get addicted to drugs, can they?
• The Les Enfentes Terribles project's true aim was to isolate and harness the Badass gene by conducting experiments with the DNA of the most Badass person alive, Big Boss.
  • Big Boss eventually goes on to become the God-Emperor of Mankind, meaning that all Space Marines carry his geneseed.
• Soldiers wishing to join the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers are screened for this gene as well.

Jesus's mother Mary could only supply Him 23 chromosomes, meaning that the other 23 must have come from God. Assuming that he had offspring with Mary Magdalene, His descendents probably would have carried DNA sequences that did not exist before Jesus was conceived.

• When these genes are active, the carrier becomes a full-fledged Messiah.
• All four Pevensie children carry the Messiah genes, making Aslan guilty of nepotism.

Kira:	Shinigami	Eye Deal?
Calvin	Hobbes	No
Megan Parker (future)	Unknown	50/50 chance
Dr. Bob Kelso	Enid	No
Stewie Griffin	Ryuk, Brian, or Rupert	Only in Relevant Cutaways
Jessica Fletcher	her editor	Yes
Maximum the Hormone	Ryuk, Rem, and any others	Maybe
Edgar Allen Poe and Bobby the Stalker	the Raven	Yes
Nathan Petrelli	Linderman	No
Sylar	his mother	Yes
Matt Parkman	Sylar	No
Gaius Baltar	Chip-Six	No
Donnie Darko	Frank	Maybe?
John Crichton	"Harvey"	No
Lelouch Lamperouge	C.C.	Yes
Santa Claus	his reindeer	Yes

But in Zetsubou Billy, the lead singer of Maximum the Hormone stated that he and his band are Kiras, and so are we ("Even you're Kira!"), so what does that mean?

• It means that they were lying.

Teen Girl Squad is what happens when somebody draws a comic in a Death Note - that girl who wrote the email SPECIFICALLY TOLD STRONG BAD ALL HER FRIENDS' NAMES. You notice she never wrote back to him.

• Doesn't this make Strong Bad a Kira then?
• Note: Only Kristen's name was written in the comic. Therefore, she is probably dead. The rest of them are fine. Also note that Strong Bad did not use his real name. At least, I don't think so...*eerie music?*

There is a person mentally contected to each book who receives the names of people about to die. They in turn pass the names onto the leader of a reaper group, and this is how they know who is going to die.

The includes, but by no means is limited to

• Viewtiful Joe and friends
• The Kamen Riders
  • No wonder why Super Sentai is part of the Rider multiverse as of that Kamen Rider Decade/Samurai Sentai Shinkenger crossover arc!
• Sailor Senshi
  • as well as Tuxedo Mask
• Static
• The Swat Kats
• All Pretty Cures, as well as Shiny Luminous (which, as mentioned previously, has the interesting implication that Jesus may secretly have been a Power Ranger) and Milky Rose

• Dungeons And Dragons
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Disgaea (...wait a tic.)

• TGRI from the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
• Umbrella Corporation.
• Whatever the hell outfit Looten Plunder is in charge of.
• Buy N Large
• Both Primatech and Pinehearst
• Massive Dynamics "What don't we do?"
• Global Dynamics (G.D.)
• Holdings (Holdings) Ltd. and their subsidiaries Newtrition and Burger Lord
• The Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC)
• Oscorp
• Trask Industries
• GenUTech
• Mom’s Robots and Slurm co.
• The Yotsuba Group
• The Beyond Corporation
• Ryan Industries
• Also attempted hostile takeover of Stark Industries and Wayne Interprises.
• Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart.
• Wolfram and Hart
• Manticore
• Blue Sun Corporation
• LexCorp, and especially S.T.A.R. Labs
• Armacham Technology Corperation

• In the digital world.
• Dead in the Underground.
  • Alternately, they are down in the Underground. They'll find someone true. Down in the Underground, a land serene, a crystal moon. Yeah. Hah.
• Stuck traveling with a timing device.
• Pulled back in time to help the Minbari. Duh.
• Lost in a Sea of Dirac.
• Trapped inside a Shield World's dyson sphere.
• Just a code named for a subculture of Americans who hunt dangerous paranormal creatures.
• Lost in London Below.
• Lost walking the Silfen Paths.

• Gallifrey: destroyed by the Spiral Nemesis, though some highly evolved humans managed to escape.
• Alhazred: destroyed by the Spiral Nemesis.
  • Midchilda: Spiral power was successfully sealed shortly before Spiral Nemesis could occur, and was replaced by magic.
  • Ancient Velka: All Spiral warriors were sealed into Empathic Weapons (Simon is in Graf Eisen).
    • More likely, Magic is something of a Shell Program to ensure that the use of Spiral Power doesn't go out of control. The circles/triangles of Instant Runes turn for a reason.
• The Green/Purple/Red Planets or the Tri-star System: The G-Stone is a form of Spiral Energy collected in crystals, and Genesic Aura is a superconcentrated radiation of Spiral Power being released from G-Stones and the G-Crystal. The Sol Masters and Zonder Master Program were secretly corrupted by the Anti-Spirals, while Mamoru was born with superhuman levels of Spiral Power Manipulation. Shishioh Guy has natural affinity for Spiral power and was reformatted into the pinnacle of a human who embraced Spiral Power wholeheartedly at the end of the TV series. The Betterman is Earth's natural defense against the Anti-Spiral's machinations to extinct the human race.
• Chrono Universe: Humans did not possess Spiral Power until it was introduced to humanity by Lavos and/or the Frozen Flame.
• The Sonicverse: Chaos Emeralds, like G-Stones, are pure Spiral Power crystallized. The Master Emerald is a Lost Technology supercomputer that can collect and use Spiral Power. Sonic and his furry friends became humanoid due to the amount of Chaos Energy, aka Spiral Power, that they can tap into. Rings are regualar collections of Spiral Power, and the Special Stages are unique twisted-space dimensions naturally created by the Chaos Emeralds as a natural menhod of preventing critical Nemesis-levels of Spiral Power from accumulating. The Super/Hyper/Perfect forms of the various characters are due to temporary super-evolution due to exposure to vast amounts of Spiral Power.
• The Earth of Uzumaki is afflicted by a debased form of Spiral-Power. In this universe, the Anti-Spirals used their ability to manipulate probability and space to create a device that targets releases of spiral energy and surrounds them with despair and agony. The 'curse' on that particular town was merely a test-run; when the system is brought to full power, there's no telling what will become of their Earth.
• Samurai Jack: Jack's sword is made of raw Spiral power, and acts as a focus in the episode where he pilots "Robo-Samurai" (which is this world's equivalent of a Ganmen).

• The Security Officer from Marathon, who has an aptitude for mindless carnage, no voice and no problem following the orders of a higher being without question. When Durandal merged with Thoth he became aware of the multiverse and the G-man, and hired Gordon’s services. After fitting him with a set of Jjaro cybernetic implants, Durandal-Thoth sent Gordon back in time to help Durandal’s past self on the Marathon. The G-man lost track of Gordon for a while when the W’rkncacnter escaped and the doctor used his Jjaro implants to dimension-jump, but found him again when Durandal-Thoth released him from it’s service at the end of Infinity.
• The Point Man from First Encounter Assault Recon. Alma is actually G-man’s daughter, who was given Gordon to play with to keep her out of trouble while her dad went to an important meeting. She granted Dr. Freeman latent psychic powers, which combined with his Jjaro cybernetics to give him superhuman reflexes. G-man was quite impressed with the mess his daughter managed to make in such a short time, and plans to take her to his agency’s next Bring-Your-Daughter-To-Work Day.
  • I assume that this means Chell is Alma, and both are Time Lords?

This explains the total absence of "No Child Left Behind"-related standardized testing, coaching for the same, and any other conservative-oriented education "reforms" from the Bush and late Clinton years . It's particularly noticeable in The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody and I Carly, which both feature supposedly inner-city schools that resemble well-run suburban public schools far more than the blackboard jungles or excessively regimented "model programs" usually depicted in media; and the latter show has presumably commonplace home Internet connections capable of uploading live streaming video at SDTV quality and frame rate, with glitches few and far between. All pointing to a different political ideology in place throughout recent years than what actually was.

• The purification of Galaxia.
• The Lone Power's surrender.
• The lifting of the Fog of Deceit in the collective heart of mankind.
• Schala being freed.
• The opening of the Matrix of Leadership.
• Wyld Stallions First True Gig
• The restoration of the Crystal of Truth

• Tony Stark
• Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman
• Leonard de Quirm
• The Mechanist
• Foaly
• Dr Henry Jekyll (of a more Mad Chemist variety)
• Cave Johnson (come on, he created a device that connects two points in space with a wormhole - while attempting to design a shower curtain)
  • He just took after his ancestor, B.S. Johnson.
    • That made so much sense...
• Wallace
• Professor Isaac Sumdac.
• Kat Donlan.
• Kaolla Su
• Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. Poor old Beaker has classic Minion syndrome.

• Joshua
• Neku's dead BFF
• Another Day's Eri
• Mr. Hanekoma
• Mew
• The Player
• The Nintendo DS
• Haruhi Suzumiya
• Shinji Ikari
• A Time Lord
  • Which means all of these people are different regenerations of the same Time Lord.
• Light Yagami
• Konata
• Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
• Danny Phantom
• Ermac
• Geno
• Kefka
• Shiki
• Giygas
• Everyone after undergoing Instrumentality.
• Slimer
• A demon
• A cat
• The Heartless
• Axel
• Bedlam
• The world's potential
• The Cheat
• Jesus
• Westly
• Rincewind
• Trope Tan
• Madotsuki
• John Lennon
• Chuckie
• Companion Cube

• The Flash, and all related characters.
• Quicksilver
• Superman
• Sonic The Hedgehog
• Speed Racer
• Skidz
• Conner McKnight and Ronny Robinson

Ash's father is...

• Giovanni
• Lugia
• Professor Oak
• Arceus
• Darth Vader
  • And since everyone ever voiced and played by is the same person, Joker is his brother.
• Fire Lord Ozai
• Zeus
• Chuck Norris
• Obviously, a Time Lord
• Vince McMahon, damnit!
• A male reincarnation of Haruhi Suzumiya.
• Shinji Ikari.
• Himself
• Ash
• Mrs. Cartman

Such Forums include

• The Force of Chaos in Sailor Moon, very much the "Dark Side" in that continuity.
• The Chaos in the Chaos Emeralds, in the Sonic The Comic continuity, Super Sonic is an insane super forum that's anything but good. In other continuites, they serve to bring order to the chaos.
• Chaos itself, this side to Chaos is the side that represents that order itself is not inherently good, that Chaos must happen for order to be (to wit, Dark Is Not Evil)
• The Shadows in the Persona continuity. Summed up by the fact that in P4, they go beserk when there is calm in the TV World.
• All "Dark" aliences in the Mega Ten continuites.
• Chaos in Warhammer40000 is the particularly evil side.

And so on.

• Every attempt to bring order will sooner or later end in Chaos or will spread Chaos elsewhere. Most people just don't realize it because they tend to exist in relatively ordered environments. Some apparent forces of "order" (such as, for example, Knights Templar or most kinds of Utopia Justifies The Means) might even be something like XanatosGambits played by Chaos in order to spread itself.

• Naruto: Naruto is Chaos, Sasuke is Law.
• The ninja vs pirate debate: Pirates are Chaos, Ninja are Law. (Obviously this doesn't cover the above example.)
  • Or Ninja as a group are Law, there's just the minority of them that are Chaos. (Like Naruto)
    • Much like there's a minority of pirates that are Law (for example, British privateers)

• Mario
• River Tam
• Faith Lehane