History WMG / SerialExperimentsLain

In the last episode, Lain of the Wired states that the Wired merely recieves its powers from being connected to a greater entity. Since Lain originated as scattered pieces in the Wired, she herself can't be God since she is part of a subordinate entity. Lain figures out with Eiri that his plans were inspired by God and it doesn't make sense for unconscious, egoless pieces to convince someone to assemble them, so someone else must be God and made Eiri assemble Lain.

[[WMG:''Serial Experiments Lain'' is a sequel to ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' and Lain is Haruhi]]

[[WMG: Lain is [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]] is [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]]]]

[[WMG: Lain is connected to the plots of both VisualNovel/SteinsGate and LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya]]

* Let me explain. The anime gives references to the Internet, the Schumann Resonance (Earth's electromagnetic field) and man's ability to produce psychic power when wired together. Over time, as we are getting more and more addicted to technology, it influences the nature of Earth (from green nature utopia to a wired CrapsackWorld), so somehow we are either just complete jerks worshipping cyberspace, or somehow our psychic powers are being harnessed by cyberspace, giving it the ability to influence the world. The best example would be Wiki/TVTropes itself, which has the power to influence fiction even though it is just a wiki with [[EpilepticTrees over-the-top theories]].

Lain actually is his biological daughter and the Messiah. Lain has many parallels with Jesus; she was incarnated through a human but had preexisted her incarnation, her presence on Earth is a cataclysm for change in the laws of life and she leaves the Earth only to return to her friend for a short while.

The Wired is a hive mind made through connecting humanity's psychic powers via the Internet. Wait, how come the connection of humans create a DeusEstMachina? In other fiction, beings wired together (for example, the [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]]) don't produce an instant Deus Est Machina. Where is the real Deus Est Machina, then? Answer: TV Tropes Wiki. Think about it: Tropes transcend reality. Enough tropes can either [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife ruin your life]] or strip a human away of your Fourth Wall. Enough humans without a Fourth Wall could outsmart, or even transcend and manipulate, reality. Enough humans with enough tropes to transcend reality can make a God.

[[WMG: Anime/SerialExperimentsLain happens inside Film/TheMatrix]]

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The Wired, as stated, has the properties of the Jungian 'collective unconcious', while the Warp is basically human emotions manifest itself into reality.

*** Cyberspace (Wired) doesn't just lack the ability to limit free will, in fact it gives man [[{{GIFT}} too much free will]]......

The WMG: The real BigBad of the entire plot isn't Eiri, but Anonymous, being the dominant IAmLegion entity that he is. Lain might be the collective anthropomorphic manifestation of Anonymous' own creation, the Lolcats. Obviously, Lain, who actually watched Arisu masturbate and is also the God of the Wired, is Ceiling Cat. In the SEL Universe, Eiri is a member of Anonymous. Consumed by the power of the {{GIFT}}, he tried to use both his psychological knowledge of the collective unconscious and his knowledge with computers to access the collective unconscious and personify it into Lain / Ceiling Cat. Through Lain / Ceiling Cat, they will preach the message of anonymity, and [[BiblicalMotifs maketh anonymous disciples of all nations]]. However, Lain sacrificed herself to forgive our sins and prevent the awakening of Anonymous from the nether abyss. If Eiri and Anonymous succeeded, however, through the collective unconscious Eiri will awaken Anonymous from his abyssal slumber as a group of anonymous kids over Website/FourChan into an actual [[TheLegionsOfHell Legion of Demonic Invaders from Hell]] [[ApocalypseHow who will purge]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the world with]] [[FireAndBrimstoneHell fire, brimstone]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and endless memes]] and can only be identified and expected through this quote: ''[[IAmLegion I Am Legion, For We Are, Many]]''........

* Thank you for helping to clarify this for [[{{Sneebs}} me]]. However, Eiri's behaviour in episode 11, when Arisu/Alice finally goes to lain's house. His freak out over Lain's decision doesn't strike me as particularly heroic, especially if he knew that her meddling would wipe him out of existence. Still, it's good to keep your points in mind; they're by far the most coherent explanation I've yet to get about this series.

* This troper would like to point out that ABe being behind both productions pretty much explains why Lain looks like Rakka. Hell, look at some of the art for ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' (the specific example I can think of is the novel's cover art, which is on the series' Wikipedia page), in which Misaki also looks very much like Lain. Either ABe is fond of drawing girls who look similar to Lain, or that's just the way he draws all his female leads, or both.

** Abe can't really be considered as being "behind" both production. He conceived of and wrote ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'', so it's definitely his. But ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' was written by Creator/ChiakiKonaka. Abe was only brought in to the production after Ueda saw his artwork online. He did character designs and backgrounds, but that's it. If you look at the other teen female characters he's done, you'll see that they've all got similarities. He tends not to do the blue or pink hair and so forth, so this isn't too surprising.

Not knowing what happened to the project, Eiri kills himself to enter the Wired and keep it from taking control of the real world. Eiri and the rest of Tachibana laboratories eventually find out about Lain through the Wired, but don't know if she's the project that they developed or not. Hence, why they don't know anything about her, but Eiri still claims he created her. The other Lains in the Wired are other people's attempts at duplicating the project (The Knights for example), or Lain prototypes that got discovered by The Knights. (Kind of like the KIDS project.)

After erasing herself from existence, Lain became Haruhi by locking away conscious memory of her powers and reinventing her personality. Haruhi, in turn, despairing at how ordinary the world seemed to her, imagined herself as a warped savior of humanity -- that is, Shinji -- and subconsciously made it into reality. However, Lain herself was an image of Shinji as he saw himself during Instrumentality. This causal paradox is fundamental to the existence of the universe; all of reality is an extension of Lain/Haruhi/Shinji. The {{Time Lord}}s are people who understand how this works.

Finally, Eiri did all this knowing that Lain was going to ultimately hit the master reset, and that he himself wouldn't die. It's like the ending to ''DonnieDarko'', only weirder and more ambiguous. Now ''there's'' a sentence I never thought I'd compose.

[[WMG:Lain is an alternate universe {{minus}}]]

* Let me explain. The anime gives references to the Internet, the Schumann Resonance (Earth's electromagnetic field) and man's ability to produce psychic power when wired together. Over time, as we are getting more and more addicted to technology, it influences the nature of Earth (from green nature utopia to a wired CrapsackWorld), so somehow we are either just complete jerks worshipping cyberspace, or somehow our psychic powers are being harnessed by cyberspace, giving it the ability to influence the world. The best example would be TVTropes itself, which has the power to influence fiction even though it is just a wiki with [[EpilepticTrees over-the-top theories]].

[[WMG: Lain encounters GLaDOS]]

In fact GLaDOS had a part in both Lain's creation... ForScience...

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[[WMG: Lain is connected to the plots of both SteinsGate and LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya]]

[[WMG: The same thing killed the Krynn in ForbiddenPlanet]]
Just like a collective subconscious killed the KIDS subjects, the Krynn built a Wired and their collective unconscious wiped them all out. The just had much more powerful psi amplifiers than we did.

[[WMG: Lain was created by the government and the lines between reality and the Wired were already blurring]]

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[[WMG: Eiri's work is based off that of NikolaTesla.]]