History WMG / IsleOfDogs

* [[spoiler:Confirmed. The entire Dog Flu outbreak, and the anti-dog hysteria around it, was engineered by the Kobayashi Dynasty]].

* Jossed. The Kobayashi Dynasty all despise dogs (being fanatical cat lovers), [[spoiler:and plan to replace them with the robot dogs]].

* [[spoiler:Jossed. The mayor holds a meeting with his staff starting with, "As you know, we all hate dogs." He then proceeds to list off their individual achievements in the plan to eliminate Megasaki's dogs, including deliberately introducing infected fleas and other parasites into the city. It's still possible that Major-Domo gave him the idea initially, but Mayor Kobayashi definitely hates dogs, and dog flu is indeed real in-universe.]]

Mainly because his reactions occasionally seem to indicate this. Could be an innate ability, could be a result of having a piece of metal jammed into his skull, could just be the filmmakers helping to move the plot along. Although this would also explain [[spoiler:How [[IWasNamedMyName Chief gets a tag that says "Chief" at the end]]]].

[[WMG: The "dog flu" will be revealed to be non-existent.]]

* [[spoiler:Confirmed. The entire Dog Flu outbreak, and the anti-dog hysteria around it, was engineered by the Kobayashi Dynasty.]]

[[WMG: Alternatively, the flu doesn't exist, but the mayor doesn't hate dogs.]]

If you watch the trailer again, notice how the mayor has this [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gríma Wormtongue]]-esq assistant. Maybe that assistant is the one who hates dogs and manipulated the mayor into the thinking the "dog flu" is real. And the mayor, being none the wiser, believed him and made the order to remove all dogs, genuinely believing he's doing what's best for the people.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. The mayor holds a meeting with his staff starting with, "As you know, we all hate dogs." He then proceeds to list off their individual achievements in the plan to eliminate Megasaki's dogs, including deliberately introducing infected fleas and other parasites into the city. It's still possible that Major-Domo gave him the idea initially, but Mayor Kobayashi definitely hates dogs, and dog flu is indeed real in-universe.]]

[[WMG: This is the beginning of the Black Mirror episode Metalhead.]]

[[WMG: The mayor's assistant is an incarnation of [[VideoGame/LiveALive Odio]].]]

[[WMG: Atari is able to understand animals to an extent.]]
Mainly because his reactions occasionally seem to indicate this. Could be an innate ability, could be a result of having a piece of metal jammed into his skull, could just be the filmmakers helping to move the plot along. Although this would also explain [[spoiler: How [[IWasNamedMyName Chief gets a tag that says "Chief" at the end]]]].

** [[spoiler: Jossed. The mayor holds a meeting with his staff starting with, "As you know, we all hate dogs." He then proceeds to list off their individual achievements in the plan to eliminate Megasaki's dogs, including deliberately introducing infected fleas and other parasites into the city. It's still possible that Major-Domo gave him the idea initially, but Mayor Kobayashi definitely hates dogs, and dog flu is indeed real in-universe.]]

** [[Spoiler: Jossed. The mayor holds a meeting with his staff starting with, "As you know, we all hate dogs." He then proceeds to list off their individual achievements in the plan to eliminate Megasaki's dogs, including deliberately introducing infected fleas and other parasites into the city. It's still possible that Major-Domo gave him the idea initially, but Mayor Kobayashi definitely hates dogs, and dog flu is indeed real in-universe.]]

Mainly because his reactions occasionally seem to indicate this. His shocked expression when Rex tells him, "The wrong dog died," for example, or his seeming understanding of the black owl's message. Could be an innate ability, could be a result of having a piece of metal jammed into his skull, could just be the filmmakers helping to move the plot along. Although this would also explain [[spoiler: How [[IWasNamedMyName Chief gets a tag that says "Chief" at the end]]]].

Mainly because his reactions occasionally seem to indicate this. His shocked expression when Rex tells him, "The wrong dog died," for example, or his seeming understanding of the black owl's message. Could be an innate ability, could be a result of having a piece of metal jammed into his skull, could just be the filmmakers helping to move the plot along. Although this would also explain [[spoiler: How [[IWasNamedMyName Chief]] keeps his name at the end]].

Mainly because his reactions occasionally seem to indicate this. His shocked expression when Rex tells him, "The wrong dog died," for example, or his seeming understanding of the black owl's message. Could be an innate ability, could be a result of having a piece of metal jammed into his skull, could just be the filmmakers helping to move the plot along.

* You can argue his name fits when saying it slowly (Major-domo > Majordomo > Ordomo > Odio).

He's sent the dogs to the isle and introduced an intelligence-boosting drug of some sort to the food supply to create an army of super-intelligent dogs to overthrow the Prime Minister of Japan, declare himself Emperor, and use the dog army to get revenge on the United States for WorldWarII.

For one, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Watanabe died]], Watanabe always dies when Odio is involved. The reason Odio never called the characters from this time period into the final chapter is because this Odio incarnation wasn't killed in battle, but simply imprisoned.

The mechanical dogs the Mayor creates eventually get more advanced and end up running amok and hunting people

[[WMG: This is the beginning of the [[Tv Series/Black Mirror]] episode Metalhead.]]
The mechanical dogs the Mayor creates get more advanced and end up running amok...

[[WMG: This is the beginning of the [Black Mirror] episode Metalhead.]]

If you watch the trailer again, notice how the mayor has this [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gríma Wormtongue]]-esq assistant. Maybe that assistant is the one who hates dogs and manipulated the mayor into the thinking the "dog flu" is real. And the mayor, being none the wiser, believed him and made the order to remove all dogs, genuinely believing he's doing what's best for the people.

He's sent the dogs to the isle and introduced an intelligence-boosting drug of some sort to the food supply to create an army of super-intelligent dogs to overthrow the Prime Minister of Japan, declare himself Emperor, and use the dog army to get revenge on the United States for WorldWarII.

Similar to the above theory, he hates dogs and wants to get rid of them, so he secretly hired some biotechnicians to create a disease that they could spread through dogs as an excuse to take them away. If this is true, maybe Atari has either gained immunity to the flu, or is suffering from symptoms that aren't outwardly visible.

The mayor hates dogs, and he made it up as an excuse to get rid of them.