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B) Her skills with math combine with her mind reading abilities to grant her skills similar to the {{Wolverine}} villain Mister X (who has the same abilities as River) or {{Spider-Man}} (who's spider-sense results with something similar). She knows what her opponents are doing, figures out the best way to counter, then does so, while her instincts make her strike at the absolute perfect time to deliver maximum injury, resulting in her ability to utterly destroy the people she fights.

[[WMG: The weapons used by the "Hands of Blue" are [[TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth 456 technology.]] ]]

Perhaps Earth has fixed its problems. Due to the larger population and the head start (the colonists wouldn't be developing very much during the trip) Earth might now be significantly more advanced and have a higher quality of life than the Firefly system. The colonists may very well have jumped ship too early and be living in relative squalor compared to the folks back in the Sol system. Matti23

They're both played by Christina Hendricks, for one, but Chair shares more than an actress with her descendant. Chair has used her body to try to worm her way to the Bellacourt fortune (it's revealed at the end of the [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler first episode]] that she's pregnant with the Commodore's lovechild, and hopes it'll be an heir. Similarly, YoSaffBridge uses her sex appeal to get together with people before using them for her own gain. Now, Another Period isn't even through it's first season (and doesn't have its own page on here yet, which is why I linked to [[TheOtherWiki another site]], so we don't know what happens to Chair or her unborn child yet, but she's implied to have been a prostitute in the past, so she may have given up offspring before. (That last part was put in in case both she and her unborn child die in the show, thus keeping the theory possible.)

There is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_(surname) a surname]] pronounced "Tam". The ancestry may not even be that far up the family tree, either, as even having one Caucasian parent can result in Simon and River's features.

In "Heart of Gold" there is a line that is translated (by the Firefly companion, not by me) as,"Swollen of her, they left. And for the first time since the Great Burn that birthed her, She was alone." The exodus from Earth was said to carry "a quarter of a billion people". So the first line makes it sound like the Earth was being completely evacuated (hence afterwards it would be alone). Yet, according to the second, the exodus only carried 3.5% of the current population, never mind the extremely overpopulated population of that time. What if there were actually multiple ships sent out though? They could have been send to different stars, each taking a share of the population, and setting up their own colony there. That way, humanity has the best chance of survival.

[[WMG:{{Series/Firefly}} takes place in the same universe as {{Trigun}}.]]

Both series are {{Space Western}}s, and both give off a similar vibe. {{Series/Firefly}} is the {{Trigun}} world's past. Plants were a technology that was eventually abandoned by the Alliance. This works for both the anime version and manga version as one can assume [[spoiler:any other autonomous plants simply decided to go into hiding if they had a reason to do so.]] The whole series is simply taking place on a world forgotten about by the Alliance.

[[WMG: Reaver society is run like [[{{Redwall}} Terramort]]]]

[[WMG: [[StarWars Han Solo]], [[IndianaJones Indy]], and Mal are all part of the same family]]

[[WMG: NathanFillion will eventually find a way to secure the rights to Firefly and make an animated series out of it.]]

Both are SpaceWestern shows about a BadassCrew of outlaws travelling the solar system on a [[WhatAPieceOfJunk sturdy and dependable bucket of bolts]], and society is a weird mishmash of different cultures [[SchizoTech and time periods.]] Admit it, [[SoCoolItsAwesome this is so cool it has to be true.]]

** Wait a moment... [[{{Friends}} that's one letter away from Joincidence!]]

[[WMG:The Alliance are the precursors of the [[MilesVorkosigan Cetagandan Empire]].]]

―Zoë Alleyne Washburne

** I always felt the Reavers more Orc-like than Zombie-like, I don' get why most people seem to feel their like zombies or 28 Days Later infected. Orcs are very similar; cruel, sadistic, violent, get in berserker frenzy during battle, but other than that can forge weapons and have chains of command. So I see no reason why Reavers can't be similar.

Jayne has implied to Mal that Jayne would turn on Mal for a sufficient sum of money, and not a ludicrously large sum either. But when Jayne got an offer from Dobson that has to be high enough, he turned it down. Jayne is loyal to Mal and only keeps up this façade to ensure that Mal makes paying Jayne a priority and that people take pains to avoid pissing him off. He was willing to betray Simon and River because he didn't consider them crew.

#Earth is destroyed several times while Fry Sr. is [[HumanPopsicle frozen]], the first of which was the incentive to start colonizing space - his nephew Fry Jr. was the first man on Mars, and a few centuries later humanity has reached a new Solar System and established new planetary civilizations, with the latest scion being Wash, a lovable [[RedHeadedHero redheaded]] [UnfazedEveryman everyman]] in a RagtagBunchOfMisfits [[AC:InSpace!]].
#Having repaired its economy, humanity returns (post-''Firefly'') to Earth-That-Was to rebuild, and a descendant of the Fry line (a great''[[superscript:n]]''-nephew of Fry senior) named Hubert Farnsworth is still running an interplanetary courier business, though now legitimate, when he meets his great''[[superscript:n]]''-uncle, who true to the family line takes up residence as the lovable [[RedHeadedHero redheaded]] [[UnfazedEveryman everyman]] in a RagtagBunchOfMisfits [[AC:InSpace!]].

[[WMG: River is a [[ThePretender Pretender]].]]