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* [[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Black Hat]] is TheManBehindTheMan.
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* [[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Black Hat]] is TheManBehindTheMan.TheManBehindTheMan for X character.
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** There's the theory that all the events were the hallucinations of the protagonist or an OriginalCharacter, who is on drugs.
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** There's the theory that all the events were the hallucinations of the protagonist or an OriginalCharacter, who is on drugs.drugs or drunk.
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* X character is TheManBehindTheMan for [[WesternAnimation/{{Pibby}} The Darkness]].
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** DyingDream is a very commonly speculated form, especially if the series starts with a near-fatal accident.
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** DyingDream is a very commonly speculated form, especially if the series work starts with a near-fatal accident.
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** The hero is insane and delusional, [[CuckooNest and the entire story is their hallucination]] in an [[BedlamHouse asylum]]. Usually with an element of AndYouWereThere, with the other characters representing people from the hero's life or staff and patients from the asylum.
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** The hero main character is insane and delusional, [[CuckooNest and the entire story is their hallucination]] hallucination]], with them either suffering from some mental illness (usually schizophrenia) or downright being in an [[BedlamHouse asylum]]. Usually with an element of AndYouWereThere, with the other characters representing people from the hero's life or staff and patients from the asylum.
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* X character is [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash's]] [[DisappearedDad father]]. While an ubiquitous enough Wild Mass Guess ''in''-universe (to the point of [[WMG/PokemonAshsFather having its own page]]), crossover theories about Ash's father are also very popular, which can additionally overlap with other items in this section.
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* X character is [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash's]] [[DisappearedDad father]]. While an ubiquitous enough Wild Mass Guess WildMassGuess ''in''-universe (to the point of [[WMG/PokemonAshsFather having its own page]]), crossover theories about Ash's father are also very popular, which can additionally overlap with other items in this section.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: A legitimate trope, but fans take it way too far, especially with their tendency to assume that the BigBad is the father of TheHero, even when there is obvious evidence against it. This is probably influenced by the [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian widespread belief]] that Freud was right and that all conflicts can be reduced to [[OedipusComplex Oedipus]] CallingTheOldManOut.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: A legitimate trope, but fans take it way too far, especially with their tendency to assume that the BigBad is the father of TheHero, even when there is obvious evidence against it. This is probably influenced by the [[AllPsychologyIsFreudian widespread belief]] that Freud was right and that all conflicts can be reduced to [[OedipusComplex Oedipus]] CallingTheOldManOut.the UsefulNotes/OedipusComplex.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Sometimes done out of a desire for representation, the idea that one or more characters has a mental disorder, alternate neurology, or similar. Common variations include:
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Sometimes done out of a desire for representation, especially among people who actually fall under the relevant categories, the idea that one or more characters has a mental disorder, alternate neurology, or similar.neurotype, etc. Common variations include:
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* [[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Black Hat]] is TheManBehindTheMan.
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** The suggestion that X character is LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya (especially any RealityWarper or TheOmnipotent or any protagonist in the history of everything ever), is another epileptic tree specific to TV Tropes.
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** The suggestion that X character is LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya (especially any RealityWarper or TheOmnipotent or any protagonist in the history of everything ever), is another epileptic tree specific to TV Tropes.
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** Any AmbiguouslyAbsentParent will be speculated as dead. If it's the mother, people will often speculate that she [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]].
** {{Absent Animal Companion}}s are often theorised as being dead too, especially if they belong to a short-lived species like mice.
** {{Absent Animal Companion}}s are often theorised as being dead too, especially if they belong to a short-lived species like mice.
** The lovechild of the Delusion Conclusion and the DeadAllAlong theory is "Most of the characters are all dead and Character X (usually the protagonist) is either having grief-induced hallucinations or [[CopeByPretending pretending they're still alive to cope]]".
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* EarthAllAlong: Any fantasy setting is often presumed to be Earth either far in the future or far in the past, the epileptic trees even covering up cases where the dates are explicitly stated through an Unreliable Narrator. For stories that take place in a ConstructedWorld (which isn't supposed to have anything to do with our world): Show X takes place AfterTheEnd, or else in the distant past and two of the characters are [[AdamAndEvePlot Adam and Eve.]]
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* EarthAllAlong: Any fantasy setting is often presumed to be Earth either far in the future or far in the past, the epileptic trees even covering up cases where the dates are explicitly stated through an Unreliable Narrator. For stories that take place in a ConstructedWorld (which isn't supposed to have anything to do with our world): Show X takes place AfterTheEnd, or else in the distant past and two of the characters are [[AdamAndEvePlot Adam and Eve.]]]] Often crops up in stories where all the characters are {{Funny Animal}}s.
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* Any character with CharlieBrownBaldness (especially if they're a child) has cancer (often specifically leukemia), and their lack of hair is due to them being a chemotherapy patient.
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* Any character with CharlieBrownBaldness (especially if they're a child) [[BaldnessMeansSickness has cancer cancer]] (often specifically leukemia), and their lack of hair is due to them being a chemotherapy patient.
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* A character was actually an impostor during an OutOfCharacterMoment.
* Any work that involves children playing make-believe games will get theories claiming that the "games" are actually real. Conversely, any work that ''does'' involve magic or other unusual events, but which focuses on children, will get theories that the whole story (or the more bizarre/supernatural parts of it) is just a game being played by the children.
* Any gloomy, [[TheStoic serious]], or nervous character had something terrible happen to them in the past that made them that way.
* Any character who doesn't look like their parents will get theories that they're adopted or that [[ChocolateBaby their mother cheated on their father]].
* Child and teenage characters will often attract theories relating to having certain professions when they grow up, based on [[EarlyPersonalitySigns parts of their personality]].
* Any work that involves children playing make-believe games will get theories claiming that the "games" are actually real. Conversely, any work that ''does'' involve magic or other unusual events, but which focuses on children, will get theories that the whole story (or the more bizarre/supernatural parts of it) is just a game being played by the children.
* Any gloomy, [[TheStoic serious]], or nervous character had something terrible happen to them in the past that made them that way.
* Any character who doesn't look like their parents will get theories that they're adopted or that [[ChocolateBaby their mother cheated on their father]].
* Child and teenage characters will often attract theories relating to having certain professions when they grow up, based on [[EarlyPersonalitySigns parts of their personality]].
