History WMG / AtlasShrugged

* Related to the above WMG, [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Energy]]

* It is tantalizing to see it this way, because that would mean that Literature/AtlasShrugged (and Rand's entire philosophy) is one giant StealthParody. Rand would essentially be mocking self-worshiping jerks by stroking their massive egos, stringing them along to look like fools in their blind devotion to her ideas. Given that she was a member of the controversial writer's guild and eventually signed up for welfare, one could stretch that she was deliberately setting herself up as a strawman, [[HeroicSacrifice risking her reputation to depict the concept of rational self-interest as hypocritical and repugnant.]] It would be a historical BatmanGambit that gives Niccolò Machiavelli's satire theory a run for its money.

* John Galt was a pseudonym for the guy [[WhosOnFirst who was on first]].

* Related to the above WMG, [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Spiral Energy]]

[[WMG: John Galt is an agent of [[MichaelMoorcock Chaos]]]]

* It is tantalizing to see it this way, because that would mean that AtlasShrugged (and Rand's entire philosophy) is one giant StealthParody. Rand would essentially be mocking self-worshiping jerks by stroking their massive egos, stringing them along to look like fools in their blind devotion to her ideas. Given that she was a member of the controversial writer's guild and eventually signed up for welfare, one could stretch that she was deliberately setting herself up as a strawman, [[HeroicSacrifice risking her reputation to depict the concept of rational self-interest as hypocritical and repugnant.]] It would be a historical BatmanGambit that gives Niccolò Machiavelli's satire theory a run for its money.

TheFaceless man [[MemeticMutation that everybody wants to know]], who appears covered in a ConspicousTrenchcoat? Meets with {{CorruptCorporateExecutive}}s, and [[DealWithTheDevil talks them into joining his agenda]] by appealing to their [[MoneyDearBoy greed]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-righteousness]]? Results in the CrapsackWorld quickly going FromBadToWorse? [[DevilInPlainSight The one thing that doesn't make him a dead-giveaway]] [[LouisCypher is his good sense NOT to have a name that sounds like Devil/Satan/Lucifer]]. (This is mostly borrowing from his brief portrayals in TheMovie Film/AtlasShrugged, for the record.)

Always ObscuredInShadow while wearing a ConspicousTrenchcoat? Meets with {{CorruptCorporateExecutive}}s, and [[DealWithTheDevil talks them into joining his agenda]] by appealing to their [[MoneyDearBoy greed]] and [[ItsAllAboutMe self-righteousness]]? Results in the CrapsackWorld quickly going FromBadToWorse? [[DevilInPlainSight The one thing that doesn't make him a dead-giveaway]] [[LouisCypher is his good sense NOT to have a name that sounds like Devil/Satan/Lucifer]]. (This is mostly borrowing from his brief portrayals in TheMovie Film/AtlasShrugged, for the record.)

[[WMG: Atlas Shrugged is the mirror universe version of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet]]

Think about it. The characters are all archetypes and symbols rather than real people, with the protagonists being invincible due to representing the philosophy the work exists to advocate, and the villains are cartoonish moustache-twirlers doing things ForTheEvuls rather than for the reasons or with anything but exaggerated versions of the methods their real counterparts do, preventing any sympathy or two-way dialogue from occurring. The two works' political associates are even typically found on opposite sides of the American political spectrum.

Or the house is Austen Heller's.

[[WMG: The looters are in league with [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann the Anti-spiral.]] ]]
They both try to repress humanity's latent exceptionalism and awesomeness. The heroes both want to use their power to the fullest. The strikers are successful for a few hundred years until the main Anti-Spiral force finds them and Lordgenome defects.

For added hilarity and insanity, John Galt is Simon's ancestor.

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[[WMG: The books TheFountainhead, AtlasShrugged, and {{Anthem}} are a trilogy.]]

[[WMG: AtlasShrugged is the distant FanSequel to [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra]].]]

And Literature/TheBible is the backstory/prologue to the latter. Also, VForVendetta could be the English branch-off of the Creator/AynRand universe, set in the aftermath of the events of Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}.

[[WMG:John Galt is V. from VForVendetta.]]

[[WMG:John Galt is [[spoiler: [[BioShock Fontaine.]]]] ]]

[[WMG: John Galt is a [[DrSeuss Who]].]]

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[[WMG:Ayn Rand is Stephanie Meyer.]]
Because who else would write long, horribly inaccurate opinion-forcing self-insertion fanfic-made-literature and say they're better than anyone for getting a fanfic published?

[[WMG: AtlasShrugged is the distant FanSequel to [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Thus Spake Zarasuthra]].]]

The Bible is the mythological background/CorruptChurch inspiration which Zarasuthra supplants when he finds out the death of God. When Ubermensch Doctor Manhattan leaves Earth, collectivism sets in; Rorschach (who was alive all along) becomes V and inspires John Galt in America.