History WMG / Pixar

* [[Franchise/ToyStory Jessie]] becomes [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Boo's]] toy after Andy gives her up--this is why we see her in Boo's room.
** It's another Jessie doll. Sid tries to steal it in one of the ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' comics to prevent what happened to him from happening to anyone else.

* [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Monstropolis]] is in a dimension tied to the other Pixar characters', or in a place hidden very well. This is why [[spoiler: the trailer home Randall is banished to]] is also in ''A Bug's Life''.

** Well, Bonnie ''would'' clearly be the older version if so. And they moved at some point, probably because the poor girl wouldn't quit talking about her recurring hallucinations of a giant, blue Kitty. She took a liking to [[spoiler: Woody]] immediately because it reminded her of the Jessie doll she used to have, and then [[spoiler: when she gets a new Jessie doll ''back'' from Andy]], she likes it for the same reason. Personally, though, I can't imagine ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' taking place in the same universe as ''Franchise/ToyStory''. While the toys actively and effectively hide their secret lives from humans, monsters only hide theirs from adults, if anyone. Plus, kids in ''Monsters Inc.'' are said to be getting harder and harder to scare, which most likely means the children of previous generations still remember that monsters are real and humanity is accustomed to their presence. It at least explains why the kid at the end [[spoiler: didn't question why a one-eyed green ''ball'' was telling him jokes. and belching in his face.]] So, in a world where humans are aware that monsters sneak into their children's rooms at night, and don't care, what reason is there to hide the existence of LivingToys? Makes me wonder if the upcoming ''Monster's Inc. 2'' will approach this issue of human-to-monster relations.

[[WMG: Creator/JossWhedon is the other reason Pixar is so epic, after Creator/JohnLasseter.]]
He worked on the script for their first film, ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', and obviously it was a huge success. Every other film they have made has been, to some degree, a success. So many components of their films mirror what Joss has been doing with his shows and films: telling a simple story that often involves a [[TrueCompanions created family]], with what seems like a ridiculous premise, yet manages to be emotionally resonant to millions of people. Joss isn't working for Pixar anymore, but he's there in spirit.
* That would explain all the soul crushing.
* It also explains ''WesternAnimation/Cars2''- In order to make ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', he had to give it his all- which meant taking the part of him at Pixar away. With Joss gone, Creator/BradBird making ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'', Andrew Stanton making ''Film/JohnCarter'', and John Lasseter running Pixar and Disney at the same time, they couldn't bring themselves to their usual standards.
** Except John Lasseter personally directed ''Cars 2''.
*** Actually the original director of ''Cars 2'' was Brad Lewis.
** Conversely, both turned out to be evil and their supposed credits belonging to people they threatened.

[[WMG: Lasseter, Stanton, Doctor and the other Pixar head honchos are [[Franchise/HarryPotter Dementors]]]]
Friendly ones however - they're perfectly content to feed on their audiences' feelings instead of their souls. Their movies are so full of [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartstring-tugging]] and [[TearJerker weepiness]] because they need those emotions to stay alive. As time has gone on, they have perfected their techniques at stirring such emotions, hence how they got everyone on the planet to cry by the first ten minutes of WesternAnimation/{{Up}} and throughout the entirety of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''.

** Weird, I was thinking that same thing last night. If they are, then something tells me Brave will have something INCREDIBLY weepy and heartbreaking in it too, to keep the masquerade going for the outsiders. The tours? Showing some their true identity and hoping the secret doesn't go out to the world. Government agencies/villains/the paparazzi would hunt them down and use them for evil purposes if the secret was blown--hence the exclusiveness.
[[WMG: Brave will be rated PG]]
Why? Because all other Pixar movies about humans have been rated PG.
** Except WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}. Really, it was about Linguini, Remy and company were just the SpotlightStealingSquad.
** Confirmed!

[[WMG: Pixar ''deliberately'' made ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' weaker than their typical films]]

It makes perfect sense—in order to make their next big feature "Brave" stand out all that much more, as well as to mess around with their audiences, Pixar took it easy with Cars 2, making it a potboiler feature made to keep milking the Cars gravy train, since they knew the brand name and merchandise alone would guarantee it to be a financial success and make oodles of cash for them, regardless of critital thrashing. And then they pour their all into Brave, which would quickly Win Back The Crowd, and people will just look back at Cars 2 as just a [[{{Pun}} little bump in the road.]]
** oh, and this is to make Pooh look better too.
** It also makes sense retroactively. After ''Toy Story 3'', which became the biggest [=CGI=] film ever financially and critically, there was no way for Pixar to go but to go down. So they went [[NoKillLikeOverkill as down as people would've thought possible]]. It's really only with their special reputation (and ticket sales) that Pixar would have the guts to attempt a {{plan}} like this.
** Only problem with this theory: if they actually ''tried'' to make it their worst [[SpringtimeForHitler it would be their best.]]
** Considering that their next two films were such critical flops that they took a year off to beef up Inside Out, it can be considered that the plan worked, just not ''exactly'' as they planned.

** Pixar: Sweet Manipulatively Clever Chess Bastards since 1995. We wouldn't have it any other way.

[[WMG: Theories of why Pixar is so obsessed with TearJerker]]
Maybe the creators and the founders of this company's parents were killed by accidents and natural disasters just like Walt disney's Parents died in a fire that caused the deaths of the Disney parents in his films.

[[WMG: Disney will shut down Pixar in the future.]]

* It's actually an in-character depiction of a satirical UrbanFantasy LARP scenario that Andy takes part in at college, which paired off its participants, gave them some clues and "spell cards" for use against obstacles, and tasked its teams to roam all over campus in search of a fake "Phoenix Stone" hidden in a college landmark. Andy plays Ian, his roommate plays Barley, and Wilton - the subject of their particular pairing's game mission - is played by half a mannequin on a string. Laurel and Corey are played by their college girlfriends.

* It's actually an in-character depiction of a satirical UrbanFantasy LARP scenario that Andy takes part in at college, which paired off its participants, gave them some clues and "spell cards" for use against obstacles, and tasked to roam all over campus in search of a fake "Phoenix Stone" hidden in a college landmark. Andy plays Ian, his roommate plays Barley, and Wilton - the subject of their particular pairing's game mission - is played by half a mannequin on a string.

* It's actually an in-character depiction of a LARP scenario that Andy takes part in at college, that paired off its participants and sent them to roam all over campus in search of a "Phoenix Stone" hidden in a college landmark. Andy played Ian, his roommate plays Barley, and Wilton - the subject of their particular pairing's game mission - is played by half a mannequin on a string.

** You could fit ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' in another way: [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein 700-or-so years only passed on board of "The Axiom",while on Earth,it's been around 20,000 years before humans returned.]] This time was probably long enough for the cars to come to life,put WALL-Es away for a while and reboot the civilisation.

With the exception of ''{{WesternAnimation/Cars}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', and ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}'', which just can't be tied in, all of the movies take place in one universe. This is the reason characters continue appearing in each other's movies.

* You could even fit ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' in there. Timeline: Starts with ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' and ''Franchise/ToyStory'' all in modern day, just in four different areas. The Axiom leaves Earth in the near future. In the 600 years that it's in space, humanity dies out and sentient cars become dominant. How can cars with no limbs or hands build anything? Simple; they didn't, the robots that were on Earth did. Sometime during those 600 years, the cars all die out (I imagine reproduction is slow, if existent at all). After that, the rest of the events of ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' take place. The reason there are still trees and plants in the ''Cars'' time is because the Cars, after becoming sentient, did some cleaning and replanting of some areas with the help of robots, but once they died off, things went bad again.

[[WMG: Pixar ''deliberately'' made ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} 2'' weaker than their typical films]]

[[WMG: ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' is a fictional Movie in the Pixar universe]]

[[WMG: Creator/JossWhedon is the other reason Pixar is so epic, after John Lasseter.]]
He worked on the script for their first film, ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', and obviously it was a huge success. Every other film they have made has been, to some degree, a success. So many components of their films mirror what Joss has been doing with his shows and films: telling a simple story that often involves a [[TrueCompanions created family]], with what seems like a ridiculous premise, yet manages to be emotionally resonant to millions of people. Joss isn't working for Pixar anymore, but he's there in spirit.

* [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Jessie]] becomes [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Boo's]] toy after Andy gives her up--this is why we see her in Boo's room.

*** Landscapes change over time. Maybe a flood washed away part of the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' hill, and the river changed its course before ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''.

* You could even fit ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' in there. Timeline: Starts with ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' and ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' all in modern day, just in four different areas. The Axiom leaves Earth in the near future. In the 600 years that it's in space, humanity dies out and sentient cars become dominant. How can cars with no limbs or hands build anything? Simple; they didn't, the robots that were on Earth did. Sometime during those 600 years, the cars all die out (I imagine reproduction is slow, if existent at all). After that, the rest of the events of ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' take place. The reason there are still trees and plants in the ''Cars'' time is because the Cars, after becoming sentient, did some cleaning and replanting of some areas with the help of robots, but once they died off, things went bad again.

** Well, Bonnie ''would'' clearly be the older version if so. And they moved at some point, probably because the poor girl wouldn't quit talking about her recurring hallucinations of a giant, blue Kitty. She took a liking to [[spoiler: Woody]] immediately because it reminded her of the Jessie doll she used to have, and then [[spoiler: when she gets a new Jessie doll ''back'' from Andy]], she likes it for the same reason. Personally, though, I can't imagine ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' taking place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''. While the toys actively and effectively hide their secret lives from humans, monsters only hide theirs from adults, if anyone. Plus, kids in ''Monsters Inc.'' are said to be getting harder and harder to scare, which most likely means the children of previous generations still remember that monsters are real and humanity is accustomed to their presence. It at least explains why the kid at the end [[spoiler: didn't question why a one-eyed green ''ball'' was telling him jokes. and belching in his face.]] So, in a world where humans are aware that monsters sneak into their children's rooms at night, and don't care, what reason is there to hide the existence of LivingToys? Makes me wonder if the upcoming ''Monster's Inc. 2'' will approach this issue of human-to-monster relations.

But it's an Toon Town - like universe, where everyone is an AnimatedActor. It explains why Woody's doing the clapper in the [[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife Bug's Life]] outtakes and why Flik and Heimlich show up in the WesternAnimation/ToyStory2 outtakes- they like to help out on each other's projects. Likewise, when characters show up in other movies, they're actually cameos by the actors. The reasons settings look familiar from one film to the next (like the Ant Island tree showing up in Toy Story 2) is because they reuse the sets to save on their budgets. (Well, it's certainly a more cheerful theory than the above...)

Friendly ones however - they're perfectly content to feed on their audiences' feelings instead of their souls. Their movies are so full of [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartstring-tugging]] and [[TearJerker weepiness]] because they need those emotions to stay alive. As time has gone on, they have perfected their techniques at stirring such emotions, hence how they got everyone on the planet to cry by the first ten minutes of WesternAnimation/{{Up}} and throughout the entirety of WesternAnimation/ToyStory3.

[[WMG: Pixar is purposely making bad and mediocre movies like the ''{{WesternAnimation/Cars}}'' series and ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' to discredit CGI animation, and set in motion a resurrection of Traditional Animation.]]
* That would explain Pixar's 2D-3D crossover, ''Day & Night.''

[[ScrewDestiny Change your fate, eh?]] This could be the tag for three reasons. In-movie: It's about defying tradition. From a whole Pixar series perspective: after the debaticle that was Cars 2, it's up to Brave to change their fate and show that their DorkAge is not this day. Meta perspective: this is their 13th film. Therefore, they're trying to make it their best film to fight the unlucky 13 rule.

[[WMG: The two as of yet unnamed films will have two specific {{ShoutOut}}s.]]
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Pixar Film That Takes You Inside The Mind]] will include a subtle cameo or shout out to VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} and [[WorkingTitle The Pixar Film Set in the World of the Mexican Holiday of Dia de los Muertos]] Will have a cameo or shout out to ''VideoGame/GrimFandango''.

[[WMG: The WesternAnimation/LuxoJr. Short is secretly about the government testing with sentient objects.]]

[[WMG: The Pixar we knew is gone forever]]
Sure, they'll still have the occasional great movie like ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' every once in awhile, but from now on most of what the company will release is going to be SoOkayItsAverage at best. And if they ever ''do'' get another streak of critically-acclaimed films again, it isn't going to be anything like what they used to have.

* WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}.

[[WMG: ''Luca'' and ''Turning Red'' will both throw a major wrenches in the Pixar Theory.]]

[[WMG: ''Lightyear '' will be an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe movie]] to the Toy Story characters.]]

** Alternativly, ''Cars'' might just be in a parallel universe like Monsteropolis.

** Or could be: ''Brave'' in the long past makes toys alive with magic and turns some people into animals that reproduce causing the existence of animal descendants equally intelligent than humans. The events in ''Toy Story'', ''Up'', ''Monster Inc.'', '' Ratatouille'', ''A Bug’s Life'' and ''Nemo'' all happen in the present, humans leave Earth eventually because of pollution and I.A. machines are left behind, the events on ''Cars'' happen (a world run by artificially intelligent machines) and then they died out and the events in ''WALL•E'' happen.
* The world of ''Cars'' is on another planet and the cars were created by Syndrome from ''The Incredibles''. He travelled to another planet at some point to experiment with ideas to give everyone special powers and created sentient cars that would let humans not have to drive themselves around anymore, but something went wrong and he abandoned the cars.

[[WMG: WesternAnimation/{{Onward}} is deliberately made to joss the Pixar theory.]]

[[WMG: ''Lightyear '' will be an in-universe movie to the Toy Story characters.]]