History WMG / IceAge

[[WMG: ''Collision Course'' will be surprisingly DarkerAndEdgier than the other films]]

They landed on Earth during the end-Cretaceous extinction, rescued a small population of contemporary animals, and isolated them underground for an experimental contained ecosystem. Apparently the experiment was successful enough for Mesozoic flora and fauna to still be thriving down there millions of years after its extraterrestrial founders have vanished.

Come on, guys! Do you ''honestly'' expect two woolly mammoths, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth, two possums, and some kind of ferret to save the Earth a la ''Armageddon''?

[[WMG: The first movie takes place in Alaska]]
This explains why Humans only appear in the first movie. The Ice Age movies presumably take place in North America, and Humans only entered North America by crossing the Bering Strait landbridge from Russia to Alaska. By the events of the first movie, Humans have crossed into North America, but very recently, so have not had a chance to expand out into the rest of North America yet. This theory is also backed up by the animals heading south during the first movie. The sequels take place in the main part of the U.S.A, where Humans have not yet settled.
** There's a flaw in this theory though since we see them pass by Stonehenge ''and'' Old Faithful. I don't think the Original film's set in Alaska. References such as Stonehenge and Old Faithful are too broad and too far away from Alaska for it to be set there.

[[WMG: There will be more singing in the 4th film]]

[[WMG: If there is a 5th movie, an adult Roshan will appear.]]
There will be more humans, including a human villain, and it will finally shift to a new iceless era, thus ending the series. And then we will see how Scrat became frozen to the end of the first movie.

[[WMG: To add to the above WMG, Roshan will be the next movie's villain]]

[[WMG: If Roshan returns, his species will be retconned]]

[[WMG: All the characters are dead and are in purgatory]]

[[WMG: The next film will feature the vocal talents of Creator/AndySerkis...]]
...As an [[JustForPun Andrewsarchus]]. They've already had Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost in the films, and if they don't at least ''try'' to get Serkis, someone is doing their job wrong.

[[WMG: The franchise took place in the same universe as the WesternAnimation/{{Rio}} franchise]]
The frozen Scrat ended up and thawed in some sort of tropical setting (maybe on the coast of Brazil). If this is true, Scrat is living somewhere amongst the characters of Rio.

[[WMG: ''Collison Course'' will be the VERY LAST ''Ice Age'' movie.]]
Come on, guys! Do you ''honestly'' expect a wooly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth, two possums, and some kind of ferret to save the Earth a la ''Armageddon''?

The frozen Scrat ended up and thawed in some sort of tropical setting (maybe on the coast of Brazil). If this is true, Scrat is living somewhere amongst the characters of Rio.

[[http://www.dezinerfolio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/iceage3poster.JPG This image]] shows that the dinosaur's head is slightly shorter then a mammoth's height. The Internet tells us that mammoths measured between 2.7 m and 5 m tall at the shoulder, far too large for a 4 m tall T-rex to swallow whole. Thus, it falls to reason that the dinosaur in the movie is in fact a juvenile [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvinosaurus]], having not yet reached its adult size but old enough to reproduce. Proof:

from then on, he's {{Walking the Earth}}, tracking and sniffing for places of power in the [[LeyLine Energy Pathways of the planet]], so that he'll find the places meant to hold the [[WorldTree Fabled tree of knowledge]].

...As an [[JustForPun Andrewsarchus]]. They've already had SimonPegg and NickFrost in the films, and if they don't at least ''try'' to get Serkis, someone is doing their job wrong.

[[WMG: Three main characters lived through the Ice Age as immortal animals succumbing to the [=Fog Of Ages=].]]

[[WMG: The three main characters lived through the ice age as immortals succumbing to the [=FogOfAges=].]]
They think it's been frozen forever even though they were there when the ice age started. The Ice age was clearly more than just one winter, and all the mammoths in the area died out except for Manny and one that had been lost since childhood.

[[WMG: The 4th movie will be the one to JumpTheShark, much to the dismay of loyal fans]]
ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. For example, rumors have been flying around the internet that the baby dinos return with speaking ability (''speaking ability!''), the herd is set (ostensibly) adrift on an ice floe that takes them to a land that has no relevance to the Ice Age, but worst of the all, the ''dinos might be back''.... with no sign of [[CrazyAwesome Buck the weasel]] returning either..
* It may be even worse then that; a rumor going around the internet claims that Ice Age 4 will take place in the 21st Century after the main characters are flash-frozen and then brought back inside a museum. If true it could possibly be a poor rip-off of We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, with a possible human scrappy thrown in to follow and annoy our heroes. How on Earth you could go from the colorful and scenic Ice Age and dinosaur world, and then to the dull and drab suburbs of 21st Century Earth is beyond all logic.
** Actually, that first idea (of the Sub-Zero Heroes being shot into ''our'' world), has been {{Jossed}}, thankfully enough. Those rumors were for Ice Age: Th4w, which has turned out to be totally untrue. The new title for the 4th film is ''Ice Age: Continental Drift''. Hopefully, it will avert this chance of JumpingTheShark, but I have only one teeny problem - on the 'leaked' poster (turned out to be, once again, false), Peaches is shown to have ''blond'' hair - something that would be impossible when you look at her parent's hair, which is brown and red!
** Peaches having blonde hair is actually TruthInTelevision, dark-haired parents have fair-haired children all the time. It just has to be a reccesive gene. You'd just have to question how common a blonde wooly mammoth would be, that's all.
** To be honest, I questioned that ^ immediately after seeing the first leaked poster, which had Peaches portrayed on it with blond hair... which my friend (thelonemongrel88) has since proved to be a "smoke and mirrors" fake, and now there is the potential that the Peaches seen on that one isn't the way she might truly look when the movie does finally release next year.

[[WMG: When scrat was unfrozen at the end, he ended up in the universe of the later two films.]]

[[WMG: Scrat is on a [[Mission from God]].]]
Years before, when the earth was young and Man was still searching for his meaning, Scrat had dreamed of a Acorn-Heaven, where all of life's questions are revealed and stored in the essence of life within the acorns. He abruptly woke in the middle of the night, he glanced up at the stars above him when an acorn from a withered-dead tree has fallen on his head. he had an epiphany, that the acorn was sent from acorn heaven, and he needed to go plant such acorn in a "place of power" that would blossom to a tree and flourish the land after the great flood and the storms of ice that would consume the planet.
from then on, he's [[Walking the Earth]], tracking and sniffing for places of power in the energy pathways of the planet, so that he'll find the places meant to hold the [[world tree]] that shall one day, will become a center in the [[Garden of Eden]]

[[WMG: The next film will feature the vocal talents of AndySerkis...]]

*** BLASPHEMY!
***** ...We know. CompletelyMissingThePoint, much?

[[WMG: The 4th movie will have something to do with outer space]]
Remember the part in the first movie where Sid got lost in the ice caves? It's possible that what he saw frozen there was foreshadowing. One of the objects that was frozen was a dinosaur, hence Dawn of the Dinosaurs, do could the frozen UFO he saw be an indication of the gang meeting up with an alien race? In addition, there's Scrat: at the end of the first film, it showed him being unfrozen several thousand years later, slamming his acorn into the ground. That started a volcanic eruption, which might of been slight foreshadowing for Ice Age 2: The Meltdown. Ice Age 2 might not have had Scrat-forshadowing involved, but Ice Age 3 ''did'' involve him and Scratea fighting over the acorn as the ground they were on ''shot up in the sky like a rocket''...
* [[YourHeadAsplode My head just exploded]]. Oh ''please no'', something like that would definitely cause the films to JumpTheShark. It's also been confirmed that the title of the 4th is ''Ice Age 4:Continental Drift'', so...um... I hope not. ^^
* This troper is the original poster of this WMG and she is so glad that Ice Age 4 isn't turning out that way after all - would have been WAY too much of a JumpTheShark.
* During that part, one object was a frozen fish (representing The Meltdown). The next was a frozen dinosaur (representing Dawn of the Dinosaurs). The next one was an "evolution chart" of sloths, going from protozoa to aquatic animal to early land sloth to a cave sloth. The fourth film might have something to do with evolution. The NEXT one was the UFO. The UFO might represent the fifth movie. A bit random, seeing the fourth film is called ''Ice Age: Continental Drift", but hey, a WMG's a WMG.
* Hmm... the fourth film might have something to do with "evolution." Well, considering that there are floating, drifting ''developing'' continents, this seems like a possibility, but [[Tropers/CrystalBlue I've]] always seen that part in the Original Film as being a TakeThat to the evolutionary theory and not much else, let alone foreshadowing for a fourth film! As far as I know, Blue Sky didn't anticipate Ice Age becoming such a SleeperHit when it was first made, so such foreshadowing for a series of movies seems unlikely. Just my take. But what the hey, a WMG's a WMG's, might as well have little fun and also some fodder for thought...
* It might also represent a threat in each movie. First, you have the scary fish (The Meltdown). Then, you have the dinosaur (Dawn of the Dinosaurs.) As for the evolution charts, I remember watching a doumentary about how South America drifted into North America, causing animals on each continent to interact with detrimental consecuences. The big cardboard cutout I saw in the cinema (I was late for the trailers) had two peninsulas almost touching each other. On one side we had our heroes, on the other side we had a bunch of knife-wielding (like Buck's knife) Sloths that [[BeautyEqualsGoodness are pretty ugly.]] Perhaps the next one will involve aliens, demons, or even gods.
* Jossed, this one involves pirates!

** The fourth film is about [[InstantPlunderJustAddPirates pir]][[FollowTheLeader ates]]. Its like [[JumpTheShark jumping the shark]]... all the way [[RecycledinSpace into SPAAAACCCEE]]!!!!!!!

[[WMG: In the Fourth Movie, Scrat and Scratte will finally get back together ]]
At some point in the film Scrat will give up his eternal chase of the Acorn, and instead choose to stay with Scratte. With all the Shippers and fans out there clearly wanting this to happen, the Producers may decide to ThrowTheDogTheBone and not YankTheDogsChain in the end.
* [[{{Jossed}} Nope.]] If anything they [[ShipSinking sank the ship even more in it]].

[[WMG: The fourth film will go back to the darkness of the first]]
Oh, and Soto will come back.
*It'd be neat if they did that - returned the atmosphere of the movies back to the somewhat DarkerAndEdgier aspect of the '''amazing''' Original film. And having Soto come back would be splendid in a way - the tiger aspect has been severely reduced as the series has continued, and Soto being NotQuiteDead is practically Fanon nowadays in fanfics. You are have a gorgeous idea here! I'd love for this to happen in ''Ice Age: Continental Drift'' - if could probably save the fourth film (like Buck did with ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'') from JumpingTheShark by including those very elements! :-)
* Jossed, it has the same comedic tone as the other sequels, and Soto does not come back.

[[WMG: At the end of Ice Age 4, [[TearJerker everyone in]] [[DownerEnding the herd dies.]]]]
In the finale, there's going to be one final, tearjerking, heartwarming climax where [[DownerEnding Manny and the others die somehow. The movie will end with the epilogue scene from the first movie, with Scrat as the only survivor.]]
* Ouch. Let's not imagine that please. Manny, Diego and Sid are too lovable (''specially'' Manny and Diego) are too lovable and awesome and too wonderful to kill off.
** Second that. The herd are some of my childhood icons, and killing the off will ruin the entire franchise.
* This troper has seen the movie, and [[spoiler:that theory has officially been jossed]]
** But if you think about it, considering there are NO mammoths or sabertooth tigers, it's obvious to say that [[FridgeHorror eventually all their effort will be put pointless and they will perish.]]

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One of the pirates clearly has his "Rudy Tooth Knife".

That's why he gave Manny the necklace.