History WMG / Super8

It has a slightly similar body, but [[spoiler:it's sentient]], whereas Clovie didn't appear to be. Perhaps Clovie is to it what chimps are to humans.
* WordOfGod is that the monster from ''Cloverfield'' was a frightened infant that went on a rampage because it was looking for its mother. It's possible that both are sentient, but that Clovie just wasn't mature enough to understand the subtleties of [[spoiler: building and operating a spaceship]], whereas the ''Super 8'' monster was a fully capable adult. The difference in age could also explain the slight differences in the two creatures' physiologies.

* It's no coincidence that Bay also filmed a train set getting blown up with firecrackers when he was a kid. Cary was probably intended to be an {{Expy}} of Michael Bay. Creator/JJAbrams did help write the ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' screenplay, after all.

[[WMG: ''Super 8'' is actually a part of a larger shared universe that consists of the following...]]

- ''Cloverfield'' (2008)

- ''Let Me In'' (2010)

- ''The Mummy'' (1999)

- ''King Kong'' (2005)

- ''Alan Wake'' (2010)

- ''Control'' (2019)

- ''Jurassic Park'' (1993), ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (1997) and ''Jurassic Park III'' (2001)

- ''Overlord'' (2018)

- ''Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight'' (1995)

- ''Dawn Of The Dead'' (1978)

- ''Dawn Of The Dead'' (2004)

- ''Apocalypto'' (2006)

- ''Where Eagles Dare'' (1967)

- ''Chronicle'' (2012)

- ''Transformers Prime'' (2010 - 2013)

- ''Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising'' (2013)

- ''Breaking Bad'' (2008 - 2013), ''Better Call Saul'' (2015 - 2022) and ''El Camino'' (2019)

- ''Sons Of Anarchy'' (2008 - 2014) and ''Mayans MC'' (2018 - present)

- ''Keeper Of The Lost Cities'' (Book Series)

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[[WMG: The alien comes from the same planet as [[Film/{{Cloverfield}} Clover]], and was sent to Earth to look for it.]]
Throwing out a kinda-obvious one here. The similarity in the two different aliens' physiology suggests they are different evolutionary offshoots; the Super 8 alien is to humans what the Cloverfield monster is to, say silverback apes. Thus, the Super 8 alien is the dominant sentient lifeform of that planet. The aliens' space program had them send Clovers into outer space, like we did with monkeys. One of them crash-landed into the ocean on Earth about a thousand or so years before Super 8 starts. The aliens finally gather up enough resources and send off one of their boys to check up on their spacemonkey's status, but drops the ball and ends up crashing his spacemobile just outside the small town of Roswell, New Mexico. The locals discovered the unconscious alien and drag it and the remains of its ship back to Area 51. Two decades later, the main events of Super 8 happen, and the alien finally gets to go back home and tell his buddies what dicks humans are. And then, three decades after ''that'', a [[Film/{{Cloverfield}} Tagruato]] satellite lands in the ocean, finally managing to wake up Clover.
* And [[TheWildWest many years before that, in the same country]], another evolutionary offshoot of the same species [[Film/CowboysAndAliens would come to Earth in search of gold.]]
** But this can't be right, can it? I was under the impression that the Cloverfield alien fell into the ocean just a year or so before that film's events, as seen by the background shot of a clip at the end.
*** Explained by WordOfGod that the object seen falling in the final scene is, in fact, a satellite. This wakes up Clover.

[[WMG: Super 8 has something to do with Aperture Science]]
The interactive teaser inside Portal 2 would lead anyone to consider this. Super 8 will be part of the Half-Life series, pre-Combine. It will show that Aperture Science runs Area 51. Cave Johnson and Caroline will cameo as they are there for a business trip checking up on their only other branch.
* I support this theory. Remember What state both Portal and Super 8 take place in. Apeture was probably doing some research and whatever they were looking at got loose.

[[WMG: The creature is a Tank from ''Left 4 Dead''.]]
* What else could slam that door down like that?
** Actually, The new "Sacrifice" campaign shows that a tank cannot break open a train care. One of the challenges involves letting it out so you can kill it and get through.

[[WMG: Joe and Alice are half-siblings.]]
* Alice is probably a bit older than Joe, and her father had unfinished business with Joe's father. Alice's mother isn't mentioned any more than that she "left." It could be that Alice's mother divorced, then remarried and had a child with Joe's father, then died in the accident. Alice's father still showed up to the funeral reception to try to apologize to Joe's father about what happened, even though he was only indirectly related to it. that and Alice's reaction to the video of Joe's mother makes it seem like she has some of her own connections to Joe's mother.
** And with that, [[BrotherSisterIncest my 'ship has sailed]]...
** Jossed, although Alice's father and Joe's mother have a surprising connection.
*** Not Jossed - the canon connection and this WMG are not mutually exclusive.
** When Alice's father says that her mother left them, I think he meant "stormed out", not "left me and married another guy right here in town but still was nice to me". And Joe and Alice don't look alike. And they would have known. And the dynamic would have been different.
** Joe's mother may have dated Alice's father for a while in the past or something, and that's why they seem to have known each other so well.
*** Adding to this, Joe's mother and Alice's mother may have been friends. Alice's mother left because she blames him for her death, another reason why he was a jerkass because he believe she's right.

[[WMG: The creature and his ship will cameo in ''Star Trek 2'']]
* ''Super 8'' takes place in the same Alternate Reality as J.J. Abrams' Star Trek.
** Does that also mean ''Super 8'' happened in the original Star Trek universe too?

[[WMG: The creature's species is related to the Film/{{Cloverfield}} monster.]]
* It has a slightly similar body, but [[spoiler:it's sentient]], whereas Clovie didn't appear to be. Perhaps Clovie is to it what chimps are to humans.
** WordOfGod is that the monster from Cloverfield was a frightened infant that went on a rampage because it was looking for its mother. It's possible that both are sentient, but that Clovie just wasn't mature enough to understand the subtleties of [[spoiler: building and operating a spaceship]], whereas the Super 8 monster was a fully capable adult. The difference in age could also explain the slight differences in the two creatures' physiologies.
*** Though Cooper is very big, he isn't nearly as large as the Kaiju-sized Clover. It would be odd if the adults of the species were smaller than the infants, unless if they shed their bigger infant bodies like some insects do. Or Cooper is a midget by its species' standards, which would be pretty amusing.
*** The midget thing isn't unheard of. Hell, NASA won't take astronauts who are above a certain height because smaller people maneuver better in cramped spacecrafts. Maybe the space program from Cooper's home planet works the same way.

[[WMG: The creature communicates by electricity]]
* Okay, easy stuff first: the alien obviously has one hell of an electrical field, and extremely fine control over it, thus how he flickers lights, et cetera. Here's the tougher part; he uses this knowledge and ability to communicate with humans. Think about it; he's an alien from a completely different evolutionary tree, how does he tell the doctor and Alice that he's scared and homesick? (My) answer: when he grabs the professor, he is able to "feel" all the electrical impulses running through his system, and, based on this circuit diagram, is able to send some impulses of his own. Now, he has no idea of the specifics of what he's doing, he just knows how the reaction to certain impulses looks. I may be wrong, but I believe claustrophobia is one of the more basic neurological responses in humans; all he would need to do is trigger it for a moment in the doctor's and Alice's brains and let them fill in the rest. He may not know how claustrophobia feels, but he knows it has to do with being trapped in a space and not wanting to be there, so he figures it's the closest match.

[[WMG:The White cubes are nanobots]]
* That's why they can shapeshift. The cube form is a blank mode, though the exact form is more a design thing for the race.
[[WMG:The alien's view of humans was due to its initial telepathic contact being with a ''military'' scientist]]
* It basically divided ''adult'' humanity into "enemies" and "expendables" (see below as well).

[[WMG:The alien classified kids as innocents, thus they were never in actual danger from it]]
* It was never actually revealed that the alien intended to eat ''Alice'' -- it had only captured her and was taking her down when the Goonie Squad triggered their distraction.
* It efficiently picked off the adult members of the party in the tunnels, but left the kids alone until they cornered themselves, and...
* It was receptive to Joe's message, rather then simply tearing him apart.

[[WMG:The alien is actually an evil MagnificentBastard]]
* The sole reason we "know" the alien is misunderstood is because a few humans managed to get a psychic link with the monster, which supposedly showed its true intentions. However, that means that we're basically supposed to [[TakeOurWordForIt take the monster's word for it]]. In actuality, the monster came here to scout Earth so his species can come here to KillAllHumans and TakeOverTheWorld, but ended up crash landing and captured by the military. As a result, the monster brainwashes Dr. Woodward, pretending to be NotEvilJustMisunderstood, turning the scientist into a brainwashed pawn, whose actions eventually allows the alien to escape. The Colonel is actually the OnlySaneMan who realized that the alien is indeed a threat to Earth, and goes after the monster with military firepower to try and contain it. However, the monster ends up overwhelming the military, and escaping (allowing the children to live because the kids will forget about the fact that the alien killed many innocent people and will only tell stories about the alien's "real desire" of "just wanting to go home"), where it will hook up with the rest of its species to prepare a full on invasion of Earth, causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

[[WMG:Carey grew up to be Michael Bay.]]
* Carey has blonde hair and loves explosions, similar to Bay. He moved to Hollywood and changed his name to Michael Bay.
** ''Yes''. It also explains to obsession with aliens and metal.
** It's no coincidence that Bay also filmed a train set getting blown up with firecrackers when he was a kid. Cary was probably intended to be an {{Expy}} of Michaey Bay. (J.J. Abrams did help write the Film/{{Armageddon}} screenplay after all.)

* It had multiple limbs and used some sort of webbing stuff to string people up as snacks for later.
** When I saw the glimpses of it over the movie, it looked very tarantula-like... Plus it burrows like some tarantulas do.

[[WMG:Carey has no father]]
* Joe and Alice's fathers hug them at the end of the film, but Carey's is nowhere to be found.

** Only Jack and Louis snuck back into town to find their children, the families of the others were still in the shelter on the military base.

[[WMG: The 1979 amateur film contest was the same one as in ''[[Series/TheKidsOfDegrassiStreet Ida Makes a Movie]]''.]]

[[WMG: The alien used the runaway dogs as scouts.]]

[[WMG: The alien is a Lurker, before Zerg assimilation]]

[[WMG: The alien is from E.T.'s species]]
The aliens seen i E.T. were just kids/larval forms in some sort of interplanetary field trip. The one in Super 8 is the adult form of the species.
* Some aliens that resemble ET were seen as part of the galactic council in the Star Wars prequels. That's not a job you'd entrust to kids.
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** It's no coincidence that Bay also filmed a train set getting blown up with firecrackers when he was a kid. Cary was probably intended to be an {{Expy}} of Michaey Bay. (J.J. Abrams did help write the {{Armageddon}} screenplay after all.)

[[WMG: The alien comes from the same planet as [[{{Cloverfield}} Clover]], and was sent to Earth to look for it.]]
Throwing out a kinda-obvious one here. The similarity in the two different aliens' physiology suggests they are different evolutionary offshoots; the Super 8 alien is to humans what the Cloverfield monster is to, say silverback apes. Thus, the Super 8 alien is the dominant sentient lifeform of that planet. The aliens' space program had them send Clovers into outer space, like we did with monkeys. One of them crash-landed into the ocean on Earth about a thousand or so years before Super 8 starts. The aliens finally gather up enough resources and send off one of their boys to check up on their spacemonkey's status, but drops the ball and ends up crashing his spacemobile just outside the small town of Roswell, New Mexico. The locals discovered the unconscious alien and drag it and the remains of its ship back to Area 51. Two decades later, the main events of Super 8 happen, and the alien finally gets to go back home and tell his buddies what dicks humans are. And then, three decades after ''that'', a [[{{Cloverfield}} Tagruato]] satellite lands in the ocean, finally managing to wake up Clover.

[[WMG: The creature's species is related to the {{Cloverfield}} monster.]]

** It's no coincidence that Bay also filmed a train set getting blown up with firecrackers when he was a kid. Cary was probably intended to be an {{Expy}} of Michaey Bay. (J.J. Abrams did help write the {{Armageddon}} screenplay after all.

* And [[TheWildWest many years before that, in the same country]], another evolutionary offshoot of the same species [[Film/CowboysAndAliens would come to Earth in search of gold..]]

[[WMG: The creature is a Tank from Left 4 Dead.]]

[[WMG: The creature and his ship will cameo in Star Trek 2]]

Because, you just have to look at it! Not only the shape, but the burrowing nature. In Starcraft the Zerg are stated as being members of different species that have been assimilated into the Swarm. The Lurkers were once a technologically advanced species, but eventually were assimilated by the Zerg, and their DNA stored, as a latent form, into the Hydralisk's genotype.

** When ThisTroper saw the glimpses of it over the movie, it looked very tarantula-like... Plus it burrows like some tarantulas do.

[[WMG: The 1979 amateur film contest was the same one as in ''[[TheKidsOfDegrassiStreet Ida Makes a Movie]]''.]]

[[WMG:The white cubes are [[{{Portal}} Companion Cubes]].]]