I Wanna Be The Guy
The Kid, The Guy, And Grandfather The Guy are all the same person.
Upon defeating his "father", The Guy warped space and time to protect himself from anyone who might challenge his position. This also brought
his past self into the battle; who made the same assumption that this was his father, and that his father killed "his" father. The Kid kills The Guy, who then becomes the Guy and is killed in retaliation by the Kid.
- Alternatively, Grandfather The Guy killed The Guy's grandfather, and The Guy set about on his original quest to avenge his grandfather. Likewise, The Kid, after becoming The Guy, will see his kid try to kill him to become The Guy. In other words, it's an endless loop spread through countless generations of revenge and becoming The Guy.
- Every time the game is played represents one such generation. The Guy even mentions he has more than one child. Everytime you die, that was a child who didn't make it. This family has a lot of kids.
The game is actually a test.
Those who complete it will be drafted into the greatest army assembled to fight all sorts of
Cosmic Horror.
- On impossible. That explains the tropers who've beat it not being abducted yet.
- Anyone who can beat "I wanna be the guy" with sanity intact isn't gonna be phased by something as simple as Cthulu, after all.
- Or, it's all "Ender's Game" style, and every mistake we make, someone actually dies.
- Hopefully the enemy. Because if our side was dumb enough to have troops die whenever someone loses IWBTG...
- My...my God. That's just similar enough to the Ray Bradbury story "The Last Child Under the Mountain" (in which a video game is actually the government's missile launch system) to be plausible...
The game is cursed.
Practically all of the
Let's Players who tried to play this game either gave up partway through or stopped being a part of the Let's Play community shortly after completion. Obviously, there's something in the game's coding that saps away at the initiative and motivation of whoever plays it.
- They're called giant cherries.
- Hey, who said you could post a plausible theory?
- OBJECTION! There's at least one guy who LPed this game and made it through. It's not that hard to find on Youtube.
- What he's specifically talking about are well-known LPers who, after completing the game, basically quit being well-known LPers. Two examples I can think of are Cloud8745 and UltraJMan, both of whom are on YouTube. Cloud8745 closed his YouTube account entirely, and UltraJMan, though still active on YouTube, lost a lot of his LPer clout. Long story short, both of them quit being classy not too long after playing this game.
- UltraJMan also became very embittered with the LP community as a whole, essentially becoming a bane to both the You Tube and Something Awful LP communities. So, clearly, the game was created with a curse preventing anyone from trying to speedrun and/or LP it, lest their will be broken and they either vanish from the face of the internet or fall into Small Name Big Ego madness.
The Guy is God
I just needed to do a
Rage Against The Heavens plot. Also, TARDIS.
The game was made to discover the second coming of Jesus.
The first person to beat it on impossible, on their first try...
Every time The Kid gets killed, someone on earth dies in real life
Self-explainatory
- If that was the case, I'd have been arrested for wiping out the entire population of south america.
- Dear God! It's the video game equivalent of a Death Note!
I Wanna Be the Guy takes place in the Homestarrunner 'verse, and Stinkoman is The Kid's sucessor.
Where else could such stupid stuff happen but in the Homestar Runner univirse?
Anyway, The Kid remains as "The Guy" untill sometime around the year 20X6, when Stinkoman beats him and becomes the new "The Guy".
Three reasons for this theory:
- 1-Up says Stinkoman is "The Guy"
- The town in the opening video looks suspiciously like a suburban version of "The Field"
- Apparently names with "The" in them, (like The Guy, or The Cheat) are acceptable in this world
Oh, and The Kid beat The Guy at most, 8 years ago, since the game takes place in "200X".
- It's 20X6. It doesn't mean 2016 specifically. it could be 2026 (18 years) or all the way up to 2096 (88 years).
There will be a sequel made called I Wanna Be the Girl.
The game will be a parody of all the stereotypical girl-centered games made in gaming's history. And the ending will reveal
that the "girl" in the title is actually The Kid from IWBTG as a crossdresser Depraved Bisexual.
