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[[WMG: The entire strip is a retrospective from Calvin's perspective.]]
We're seeing events that really did transpire, but seeing them through the filter of an adult imperfectly remembering his childhood years. Thus what we see isn't a literal account of what happened, but simply how Calvin remembers things: in an extremely exaggerated fashion. It explains a lot of the oddities within the setting:
* The absurd range of material the Calvin's school covers is simply the result of several years worth of schooling getting muddled together. Years down the road Calvin can't remember exactly how old he was when he learned what, so he lumps it all in under "elementary school." Likewise his school experience really wasn't as bad as the strip portrays, but he simply remembers it that way because it's how he felt then.
* The absurd "no kid could do that" moments are simply how he felt about it when he was doing them. His snowmen weren't ''that'' elaborate or creepy, but he thought they were and remembers it as such. Likewise, he never ''actually'' went over a cliff in a sled, but to a six year old going over a five-foot drop would sure feel like it. He never ''really'' went back in time, but remembers exactly how he envisioned it.
* He wasn't really as much of an outcast as he makes himself out to be; he just didn't have many friends, and he remembers it as "I didn't have any friends at all".
* Like all kids, he imagines himself as a lot more knowledgeable and clever than he really was; he wasn't ''actually'' using big words or espousing fancy concepts, but as a kid he felt like he was being really profound, so that's how he sees himself when he looks back on his childhood.
* Hobbes still may or may not be real.
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**** Maybe he could become an [[Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger Akibaranger]].
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* Actually, this troper thinks Calvin might have hyperlexia, which is actually on the autism spectrum. (She has hyperlexia herself.) Here are the criteria for hyperlexics that Calvin fits:
- A large vocabulary but trouble with spelling
- Problems socializing and interacting appropriately with people
- An intense need to keep routines
- A large vocabulary but trouble with spelling
- Problems socializing and interacting appropriately with people
- An intense need to keep routines
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* Actually, this This troper thinks Calvin might have hyperlexia, which is actually on the autism spectrum. (She has hyperlexia herself.) Here are the criteria for hyperlexics that Calvin fits:
- ** A large vocabulary but trouble with spelling
- ** Problems socializing and interacting appropriately with people
- ** An intense need to keep routines
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*Actually, this troper thinks Calvin might have hyperlexia, which is actually on the autism spectrum. (She has hyperlexia herself.) Here are the criteria for hyperlexics that Calvin fits:
- A large vocabulary but trouble with spelling
- Problems socializing and interacting appropriately with people
- An intense need to keep routines
...shoot. Now she needs to read the entire canon to diagnose Calvin.
- A large vocabulary but trouble with spelling
- Problems socializing and interacting appropriately with people
- An intense need to keep routines
...shoot. Now she needs to read the entire canon to diagnose Calvin.
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** No, if it means that they also stay the age they are. Being young forever beats living with Calvin.
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** You might say that, but how do we know?
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[[WMG: When Calvin he grows up, he becomes a successful author.]]
He has a knack for creating characters with distinct personalities (Spaceman Spiff, Tracer Bullet, etc.), and even if they are over the top and silly, that can easily be remedied with time and experience. His poem on spiders and his essay on bats (before the whole "bugs" thing, anyway) show that he can write quite well when he wants to. And, as we all know, WritersCannotDoMath.
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* Alternately, Max happened first, and he moved in with Jon very shortly after his one and only appearance in Calvin and Hobbes. After... getting hair growth treatments? I got nothin'. (Maybe he and Jon have a shared childhood history of Calvin-esque delusions, which [[GarfieldMinusGarfield would explain a LOT about Jon]].)
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* Alternately, Max happened first, and he moved in with Jon very shortly after his one and only appearance in Calvin and Hobbes. After... getting hair growth treatments? I got nothin'. (Maybe he and Jon have a shared childhood history of Calvin-esque delusions, which [[GarfieldMinusGarfield [[Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield would explain a LOT about Jon]].)
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Susie looks more like Calvin's mom than Calvin does with this parents, and she seems to take after Calvin's dad with her work ethic.
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[[WMG: ''Calvin and Hobbes'' is not a comic strip by Bill Watterson. ''Calvin and Hobbes'' is Mabel Syrup's third book.]]
And is the sequel to ''Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie'' and ''Commander Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander''.
*Just throwing this out there.
[[WMG: ''Calvin and Hobbes'' is not a comic strip by Bill Watterson. ''Calvin and Hobbes'' is Mabel Syrup's third book.]]
And is the sequel to ''Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie'' and ''Commander Coriander Salamander and 'er Singlehander Bellylander''.
*Just throwing this out there.
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Calvin's father, for all his stodgy seriousness, can be quite a troll when he wants to be, and was implied to party heavily in his younger days, which is how he apparently met Calvin's mother. His brother Uncle Max is one of the few adults in the strip who's shown to understand Calvin's sense of humor (even if he thinks Calvin should be playing with real friends rather than imaginary ones, and he indulges him by pretending that Hobbes is real in one strip. It's easy to see his nephew growing up to be like him.
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Calvin's father, for all his stodgy seriousness, can be quite a troll when he wants to be, and was implied to party heavily in his younger days, which is how he apparently met Calvin's mother. His brother Uncle Max is one of the few adults in the strip who's shown to understand Calvin's sense of humor (even if he thinks Calvin should be playing with real friends rather than imaginary ones, ones), and he indulges him by pretending that Hobbes is real in one strip. It's easy to see his nephew growing up to be like him.
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[[WMG: Calvin's weirdness is inherited from his father's side.]]
Calvin's father, for all his stodgy seriousness, can be quite a troll when he wants to be, and was implied to party heavily in his younger days, which is how he apparently met Calvin's mother. His brother Uncle Max is one of the few adults in the strip who's shown to understand Calvin's sense of humor (even if he thinks Calvin should be playing with real friends rather than imaginary ones, and he indulges him by pretending that Hobbes is real in one strip. It's easy to see his nephew growing up to be like him.
Calvin's father, for all his stodgy seriousness, can be quite a troll when he wants to be, and was implied to party heavily in his younger days, which is how he apparently met Calvin's mother. His brother Uncle Max is one of the few adults in the strip who's shown to understand Calvin's sense of humor (even if he thinks Calvin should be playing with real friends rather than imaginary ones, and he indulges him by pretending that Hobbes is real in one strip. It's easy to see his nephew growing up to be like him.
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** He didn't actually die but merely went unconscious and was in danger of dying. The whole story takes place in a few real-world hours and the story was about whether or not Calving deserved to die.
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** He didn't actually die but merely went unconscious and was in danger of dying. The whole story takes place in a few real-world hours and the story was about whether or not Calving Calvin deserved to die.
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* Alternately, the first strip happens on the mortal plane, but none of the others do. Calvin accidentally hung himself setting up the tiger trap. In addition to his imaginary scenarios, which are one way of working through sins, he is forced to relive parts of his life so that he can realize what he did wrong. This explains the strip's time regression. At the end, he has worked through his sins, and the snow is either...
** Heaven as suggested above.
** "A fresh start": he gets reincarnated and will generally be a better person this time around.
** He didn't actually die but merely went unconscious and was in danger of dying. The whole story takes place in a few real-world hours and the story was about whether or not Calving deserved to die.
[[WMG: Calvin is a preincarnate soul.]]
As souls hang around before they are born, they develop personalities. Calvin's soul became truly evil, and the strip is about a supernatural being, Hobbes, trying to make sure that he was no longer evil by the time he got born.
* Alternatively, this is the gap between death and reincarnation, and Calvin's soul was originally a mass murderer or something and Hobbes is there to make sure he gets to be born as Calvin.
** Heaven as suggested above.
** "A fresh start": he gets reincarnated and will generally be a better person this time around.
** He didn't actually die but merely went unconscious and was in danger of dying. The whole story takes place in a few real-world hours and the story was about whether or not Calving deserved to die.
[[WMG: Calvin is a preincarnate soul.]]
As souls hang around before they are born, they develop personalities. Calvin's soul became truly evil, and the strip is about a supernatural being, Hobbes, trying to make sure that he was no longer evil by the time he got born.
* Alternatively, this is the gap between death and reincarnation, and Calvin's soul was originally a mass murderer or something and Hobbes is there to make sure he gets to be born as Calvin.
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* This WMG has become such {{Fanon}} that I'm moving it to the head of the list.
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* Susie always ''was'' drawn to Hobbes, wasn't she.
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[WMG: Susie and Calvin were switched at birth.]]
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[WMG: Susie and Calvin were switched at birth.]]
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** [[Tropers/ShiningArmor87 This troper]] wrote a few parts of this page and is not Watterson, so either Jossed, or I'm some sort of reincarnation of him. Sweet...
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* "When I'm President, I'll have us straightened out!"
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[[WMG: Calvin grows up to become one of the developers of MassEffect.]]
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[[WMG: Calvin grows up to become one of the developers of MassEffect.''Franchise/MassEffect''.]]
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[[WMG: Susie grew up to be a writer for GreysAnatomy.]]
She liked soap operas as a kid (as shown in Calvin's fantasies), so she grew up to write one.
[[WMG: Bill Watterson wrote this entire page.]]
He's just trying to throw us off the true nature of the strip by giving a shit-ton of alternatives.
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** Now all links are dead. Someone fix this?
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* Calvin Shinji Ikari trapped in an endless GroundhogDayLoop of the EndOfEvagelion and is hallucinating Calvin and Hobbes as an idealized childhood against his will so that an ElderGod can make his soul innocent enough to be eaten in the next cycle. And so on and so forth forever.
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* Calvin Shinji Ikari trapped in an endless GroundhogDayLoop of the EndOfEvagelion EndOfEvangelion and is hallucinating Calvin and Hobbes as an idealized childhood against his will so that an ElderGod can make his soul innocent enough to be eaten in the next cycle. And so on and so forth forever.
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** Sir or madam, congratulations for coming up with the first EpilecticTree I've seen so far on this page (virtually the first one I've seen anywhere on this site) to make a great deal of sense and make me wish I'd thought of it first. The only problem is that pookas in Celtic mythology were not exactly like they were depicted in ''Harvey'', but the Harvey-verse version of pookas certainly does seem to qualify.
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** Sir or madam, congratulations for coming up with the first EpilecticTree [[EpilepticTrees Epileptic Tree]] I've seen so far on this page (virtually the first one I've seen anywhere on this site) to make a great deal of sense and make me wish I'd thought of it first. The only problem is that pookas in Celtic mythology were not exactly like they were depicted in ''Harvey'', but the Harvey-verse version of pookas certainly does seem to qualify.
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** His "Geez, how am I ever going to learn how to be an astronaut?" comment to his mother in one strip would indicate that he has at least some interest in becoming a space traveler when he's older.
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[[WMG: Calvin doesn't have powers and is just an ordinary kid with an active imagination]]
Come on, NO ONE had few friends growing up and spent alot of time with their toys instead, giving personalities to them and having adventures with them? NO ONE used their imagination to play by themselves if and when they had no one else to play with?
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*Or the good side of Calvin is Charlie Brown.
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Not a trope you can pothole with a personal reaction.
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* And Marla's comment about having not been umm, F'd like that since Grade school seems to point towards something happening between [[ScreamingAtSquick Calvin and Susie]].
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* And Marla's comment about having not been umm, F'd like that since Grade school seems to point towards something happening between [[ScreamingAtSquick Calvin and Susie]].Susie.
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[[WMG: Calvin lives in a LayeredWorld.]]
My theory is this: Hobbes, the transmogrification, duplification, snow goons, time travel and metamorphosing actually happen... but not in the mundane world. Instead, they're in... well, [[TitleDrop a magical world]] that only Calvin can see in its entirety. Madam Calvin and Susie have limited vision into this fantasy world, but their view of it is imperfect. Calvin, on the other hand, can see the entirety of the magical world, with all its [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome wonders]] and [[NightmareFuel horrors.]]
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* Norwegian author Tor Åge Bringsværd, who wrote an introduction to the Norwegian translation of ''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'' (and who also translated the ''WinnieThePooh'' books), claims that Hobbes is, in fact, Tigger's ''son.'' who has inherited his father's hyperactive nature and fondness for pouncing on his friends, but is more reflective and philosophical.
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* Norwegian author Tor Åge Bringsværd, who wrote an introduction to the Norwegian translation of ''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'' (and who also translated the ''WinnieThePooh'' ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' books), claims that Hobbes is, in fact, Tigger's ''son.'' who has inherited his father's hyperactive nature and fondness for pouncing on his friends, but is more reflective and philosophical.
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* Norwegian author Tor Åge Bringsværd, who wrote an introduction to the Norwegian translation of ''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'', claims that Hobbes is, in fact, Tigger's ''son.'' who has inherited his father's hyperactive nature and fondness for pouncing on his friends, but is more reflective and philosophical.
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* Norwegian author Tor Åge Bringsværd, who wrote an introduction to the Norwegian translation of ''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'', Hobbes'' (and who also translated the ''WinnieThePooh'' books), claims that Hobbes is, in fact, Tigger's ''son.'' who has inherited his father's hyperactive nature and fondness for pouncing on his friends, but is more reflective and philosophical.
