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Jossed: The show ended before the first book was published.

Checkmatey was suicidal

Look at what happens in that episode: Checkmatey sabotages a giant, ornamental chess piece to fall on him and later nearly drowns himself with seltzer tablets. These aren't the actions of somebody who is suffering stage fright or is unsure of his abilities. These are the actions of somebody who is absolutely terrified of losing a match in public. Combine that with his abrasive personality, his habit of acting out, and the fact that he seems to care more about his music than his chess playing, and you have every indication that Checkmatey is a bright kid who was forced into chess against his will and is trying to get out of it.

Fillmore takes place in the same universe as Doug and other One Saturday Morning shows
The these shows have premises that are similar (The adventures of Middle School aged kids). The animation styles and character designs are somewhat similar, and going by the theory that Bluffington is polluted in the Doug WMG page, that's why everyone on Fillmore, Recess, The Weekenders, and Pepper Ann (all part of this universe) are normal looking in comparison.
  • House of Mouse is the nexus point, along with Lilo and stitch that links all the Disney series together.

Wayne and Emily were in a relationship before she left.
It would explain why Wayne's as devastated as he is and the "sheriff" could have made up a "No Fraternization" rule to help justify whatever was done to make her leave.

Folsom knew Parnassus was guilty, but didn't want to risk Brad's parents coming after her
Folsom may come off as a self-centered Jerkass at times, but even so, her not even wanting to look at a 15 page report clearly detailing a suspect's guilt seemed a bit extreme. But then when I saw "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes", it made sense; in that episode, it's revealed that Frank Bishop was forced to step down after he stopped a criminal with Gazpacho Soup, which caused the perp to have an allergic reaction and resulted in his parents threatening to sue Folsom unless Frank stepped down. Folsom no doubt did not want to go through another incident like that, and with Brad being the second smartest kid in school, she probably feared that his parents might not take too kindly to him getting any kind of punishment and would threaten to litigate the school and also force the officer who brought him down-Fillmore into stepping down from his position like Frank did. So Folsom didn't let Brad off the hook because she liked that he was smart, but because of concern for Fillmore and the school.

X is a Free School
X is in fact a kind of Free (also known as Alternative or New) School. Meaning that the kids that attend are allowed to control what kind of classes they go to and how often they do so. Generally students also have much more influence on how the school is run, some of these schools don't even have an actual grade system. This would explain why there are so many classes, why there was dozens of students in the hallways and such during chases, and why clubs like the student council and the safety patrol have so much power.

Vallejo, Frank and Malika were a Power Trio of officers until Malika defected to the Red Robins; Frank's devastation over the loss caused his poor judgement with the Gazpacho.
Whether it was because he had romantic feelings for her or they were True Companions, Frank and Malika were close even outside of their respective friendships with Vallejo and having her abandon them for the Robins broke Frank badly, causing his normally excellent judgement and profiling skills to suffer a downgrade in quality, resulting in the Gazpacho Incident. Vallejo was pressured by Folsom to stand down because she wanted him to take the appointment of Junior Commissioner to salvage what she could from the current PR mess and forced the Safety Patrol to change policy so that officers could only be partnered in pairs.

The official story and Vallejo's memories of the Gazpacho Incident aren't completely accurate and are in fact missing key factors, said factors being why Frank was so hurt and bitter.
While Frank did cause the perp he was chasing to get covered in gazpacho, it wasn't what he intended to use. Instead, he had intended to grab a different pot filled with what would have been a harmless, if messy, dowsing. However, before he got a good grip on the intended pot, the gazpacho got knocked loose and spilled, covering the perp and triggering the allergic reaction. The perp's furious parents then jumped to the conclusion that Frank intentionally and maliciously covered their son in his allergen and demanded Frank's dismissal; the school staff, faced with a PR nightmare, didn't bother to fact check due to the risk of legal trouble and forced Frank out of the Patrol.

So why, if that's true, did Vallejo remember Frank dumping the gazpacho on purpose? Well, between that being one of the more traumatic events of his life and one of his greatest regrets and Gaslighting on the part of the adults around him, his memories eventually altered to fit the story he was fed.

Frank's bitterness, anger and hurt derived from the fact that while he agreed with the fact that his actions needed consequences (since he triggered an allergic reaction, which could have been very serious and wasn't his intention), he was very upset and hurt that his team and partner dropped the case even after the heat died down, when a simple security feed check would have proven that while Frank intended to dump something on the perp, the gazpacho spill was an accident.

  • And in addition to all of the above, this theory being true would play into how Frank's intro episode "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes" is intended to parody the common "conspiracy" trope from cop shows.

The underground black market that would've been taken down in the planned two-part series finale would've been revealed to be the source of all the crimes seen in each episode and would've been masterminded by none other than Vallejo
Principal Folsom wants to get rid of the X Middle School Student Patrol, and Vallejo is, of course, highly against that, as he cares about the members of the Patrol and doesn't want them to have to lose their "jobs", and he's also worried that not having a Patrol would result in an escalation of crime. In order to force Folsom to accept the Student Patrol as a necessary extracurricular activity, Vallejo orchestrated a series of seemingly unrelated crimes for his Patrol to solve, knowing that Folsom's desire to keep up her own reputation would prevent her from getting rid of the Student Patrol at a time when criminal acts around the school had suddenly picked up. Eventually, he ended up Jumping Off the Slippery Slope after Folsom repeatedly refused to admit that she was wrong (likely because she's smart enough to know it couldn't have been a coincidence that the crimes started as soon as she wanted to shut down the patrol and thus she probably suspected Vallejo all along but lacked any evidence against him), forcing Vallejo to step up his game and create the black market to fund more extravagant crimes, while using the events of "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes" to avoid suspicion of his involvement with the crimes just in case the crimes started getting linked togethe now that that was a possibility. The reason we never hear Vallejo's first name (Horatio) in the actual show is because it was going to be the final piece of evidence in figuring out that he was secretly behind everything. Few people stood to gain from such a conveniently timed crime spree more than Vallejo (keeping the patrol around, keeping up the patrol's, and by exetension, his own reputation, and pulling one over on Folsom in the process), and more often than not, the culprits throughout the series are the obvious ones. Who's the most obvious mastermind behind a crime wave that started just after the student patrol was being threatened with getting shut down, in a show that uses practically every buddy cop movie trope in the book and thus wouldn't be above a reveal like this one? The guy in charge of the patrol whose job it is to keep things spinning for them.

Alternately, the finale would have made it appear that Vallejo was actually a Dirty Cop Well-Intentioned Extremist but instead the real mastermind is someone else.
And this could have gone several ways. A) To parallel what Frank's sister did/tried to do for him, a younger relative of Vallejo was pulling the strings behind events like the ones described above; they're eventually brought down and order is restored but Vallejo is heartbroken about how far his relation fell. B) The true mastermind is Malika; this could have either gone with her attempting revenge after the events of "Red Robins Don't Fly" or her trying to atone for her actions as a Red Robin, being horrified that she set up Vallejo by accident. C) Someone who has a grudge against the Safety Patrol and its members (possibly several crooks working together with Sonny Lombard as leader) set up the black market and made it look like Vallejo was behind it so everything the Patrol had done previously would be called into question; after all, if a Dirty Cop was in charge, how can people be sure the evidence used for conviction was real and not fabricated? D) Parnassus was behind it, fixing his Aborted Arc; as for why he set up Vallejo instead of Fillmore, it would be because Parnassus guessed, rightly, that going after someone Fillmore cares about and respects would be more damaging to Fillmore than going after Fillmore himself.

Alternately-alternately, the mastermind of the underground black market would have been someone with connections to Folsom and either was pulling Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! behind her back or planned on doing so if they got caught.
The mastermind noticed how much Folsom criticized and belittled the Safety Patrol and assumed that regardless of the exact series of events, if it came out that the mastermind was involved in/behind the market, Folsom would punish or even outright dismantle the Patrol for interfering. It would turn out they were wrong, with Folsom being horrified and humiliated that a relative of her would misuse their connection like this, instructing the Patrol to throw the book at them and giving up on her apparent crusade to destroy the Patrol.

Another alternate theory for the mastermind of the underground black market is that Parnassus was behind it and his new partner would have been someone with connections to Folsom and/or forced him to become his own Winter Soldier and ruled the school through it's criminal underbelly
Going on from Parnassus being the mastermind behind the underground black market he could have a relative of Folsom be his Winter Soldier who goes after anyone who even got close to the underground black market and the relative goes after Vallejo when he got too close and ends up getting hurt badly. Fillmore, Ingrid and Anza (in a case of Ascended Extra) would then look for whoever would attack Vallejo only to be pursed by the Expy Winter Soldier htemselves. As for why he takes out Vallejo instead of Fillmore, it would be because Parnassus guessed, rightly, this would cause Folsom to punish or even outright dismantle the Patrol for letting this happen. However it would turn out they were wrong onece the attacker was reviled to a relative of her, with Folsom being horrified and humiliated that a relative of her would be forced into doing something like this however the relative would realize what he had been doing and betrays Parnassus and joins the Patrol. With Folsom instructing the Patrol to throw the book at Parnassus and gives up on her crusade to destroy the Patrol and instead puts the Patrol as her top priority. Think of a mix between Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Endgame

Alistair Greystone is blind and sees with psychic powers he doesn't know about
While the jury is still out on whether or not Alistair actually has the psychic powers he so boasts about in 'Cry, The Beloved Mascot', it'd be interesting if he (given how light blue his eye color is) was actually blind, but able to see with the use of subconscious psychic powers. He doesn't even know he's blind and because 'psychic vision' is probably a little bit different from regular vision, doesn't know that what he's seeing is not what everyone else is seeing.

If Alistair had perfect vision, he'd lose it protecting Fillmore and Ingrid if the show did continue, becoming a Ascended Extra in the show's main cast.
His psychic powers before the sight-losing incident would also be confirmed to be completely fake and dumb luck. After the incident, however, he'd gain actual psychic powers in a twist of ironic fate, becoming a Blind Seer and an important ally for Fillmore and Ingrid to have for help in solving what could be the biggest case that X has ever seen.

Alistair is a ghost and has been Dead All Along.

Considering his use of VERY outdated phrases and his ensemble, it could be that he was one of the original students when X Middle School was first founded, dying in some freak, undisclosed accident or something related to that era's issues, like typhoid or tuberculosis. He ended up haunting the school in silence and gaining access to his supposed psychic powers since he was a non-physical ghost.

Eventually, he reached the point where he could become physical after gaining enough psychic energy, at the cost of losing his psychic powers. Everyone believes he's a descendant of some kind of the original Alistair Greystone, but he is actually the Alistair.

Rochelle in "A Dark Score Evened" had a phobia triggered by the The Bully Get Back Crew's strike against her.
Her reaction to the attack on her seems to be more raw and authentic than the previous victims' more melodramatic responses to the attacks on them.The most likely reason for that is that she's either claustrophobic (fear of small spaces) or merinthophobic (the fear of being bound or restrained) and being paper-mached with the toilet paper proved legitimately triggering, leaving her in the terrified state we see her in after being attacked.

In "Foes Don't Forgive", Santiago learning stage magic while in detention isn't actually a Plot Hole but the result of a policy change.
Said policy change involves students in detention being allowed to study some kind of hobby and/or pastime to motivate them to reform after their time in detention is over; Santiago was among the test group for this change and one of its first success stories as his new path in life is clearly one he has no intention of abandoning to return to his old ways.

Fillmore and Ingrid's delinquent backgrounds weren't actually For the Evulz but were motivated by legitimate reasons to lash out.
In Fillmore's case, given that he canonically has two cases where he's explicitly noted to be lashing out because the target wouldn't give him a chance to prove himself to be anything but his reputation (the rocket at the custard spill, of which he comments that he wanted to prove Geary right, and the golf team thefts) and showed himself to be a decent and even heroic young man once Wayne gave him the chance, it's quite possible that due to an unfortunate string of poorly chosen friends who gave him poisonous influences and advice and teachers who kept calling him a good-for-nothing delinquent who would never be anything else, Fillmore took those comments as fact and lived down to those expectations. Taking Wayne's offer to trade helping on a case for skipping out of detention was at first only a means to an end but once Wayne proved his offer also included friendship and genuine care and concern, Fillmore turned over a new leaf, which stuck.

Ingrid actually has her reasons painted out in canon; being smart with interests that weren't common among her peers led to said peers isolating and mistreating her so Ingrid started lashing out as an attempt to fight back, which unfortunately just led to her being labeled a hopeless delinquent, which she ended up taking as an irrefutable fact and lived down to. Similarly to Fillmore, once someone who had no reason to reach out proved they cared about her, Ingrid was ready to leave her past behind. Also adding into this could be that her unseen mother passed away or walked out and she was lashing out in grief that never got properly addressed.

That's not to say that when they were delinquents, they didn't enjoy pulling stuff over on the people they saw as threats or potential tormentors; it just means that they had reasons for falling into delinquency.

The Liggett move to Tennessee was partly motivated by the recent passing of Wayne's father and part of the reason Wayne stayed when his new patrol turned corrupt was because he felt he didn't have the resources to transfer out.
When Wayne is saying goodbye to Fillmore, he mentions his mother specifically but his father isn't mentioned. While the simple explanation is that his father wasn't relevant to the scene, having a working mother with no safety net could explain why Wayne didn't leave with Emily, pulling a "Set up the dominoes of Thrift's downfall" scheme with Emily's help on his way out, even beyond not wanting to abandon the innocent students who Thrift and his cohorts put at risk; Wayne would likely have felt unable to leave because it would have caused turmoil for his mother, who already would have had a lot on her plate, and there's also the possibility that Thrift could have made trouble for her with his illegal connections.

Alistair and Augie are cousins.

While seemingly unrelated at first, the characters share an uncanny amount of similarities when compared to other characters. Both are voiced by Kiel Holmes and have their names start with an A, both of which also match Arthur Stanley from 'Play On, Maestro, Play On', but they are also both guilty of being scammers and deceivers to some degree. Augie is a con artist upfront while Alistair is the modern equivalent of being a charlatan, a Phony Psychic. Also, they look similar, having somewhat similar shades of brown hair and blue eyes, the differences between the two being explainable by the fact that most cousins do not look all that similar to one another due to how genes and DNA work.

Also, what's another word for a psychic? An Augur.

Harrison was not the one to begin sending Alistair those emails, but he figured out where Alistair was getting his information from and took over in order to become editor-in-chief and to stop having to write about him.

Harrison's motivation for doing what he did does not make a lick of sense if you think about it. It's implied he was tired of writing about Alistair's predictions, but the show reveals that he was basically the one to get him to start predicting. If he was so tired of writing about Alistair, then why would he put himself through that trouble, even if he wanted to become editor-in-chief?

A lot of things also don't add up with him being the mastermind as well. How did Harrison know when corned beef and cabbage would be served? How did Harrison know where missing retainers would be found? Considering the show doesn't paint him as being a Not-So-Phony Psychic, it makes no sense as to how he would know or how he got his information.

Unless... he wasn't the one to send Alistair those emails at all.

What if someone else was sending him those emails and Harrison found out when trying to dig up some dirt on Alistair to stop having to report on him? From that, he hatches up a 'fool-proof' plan in order to kill two birds with one stone. By pretending to be the person sending Alistair those emails, he could cleverly manipulate Alistair into doing his bidding so he can become editor-in-chief and at the same time get away from the Phony Psychic.

But if he didn't send Alistair those emails, who did?

Remember that one character with an Aborted Arc whose last name starts with P? One who specifically states they would look forward to working against Fillmore and the patrol in the future?

Yeah.

Parnassus being revealed to be an actual psychic of some caliber seems oddly like something the show would pull. Or for a more grounded outcome, it would make perfect sense as to why he'd have access to information concerning future events that nobody else would have access to.

Sean Geary treating Ingrid with respect isn't actually the Pet the Dog it appears to be.
Rather he's only treating her that way because A) she's a top student and B) because she is either white or white-passing (the latter if there's any truth to the brief implication in "A Cold Day at X" that her father is of Asian descent to any degree). If she had brought Tehama along, she likely would have witnessed him ignoring the more obviously not-white forensics officer in favor of Ingrid herself.

So, if this guy is so racist, why is he still on staff? Simple; he only openly indulges in his racism against delinquents, giving him Plausible Deniability in the sense that everyone assumes he's prejudiced against them for their delinquent antics rather than their ethnicity.

If the show ever delved into it, they'd probably have Fillmore and Ingrid realize that Geary either supports Tony's reformation attempts but gives Santiago the stink eye, despite the latter doing more to prove his reformation, or that while he openly shows himself to be disdainful of Sonny, he expresses pity for Penny's "poor company" despite the fact that both characters openly and routinely made choices of a toxic nature of their own volition.

The Fandom Rivalry in “The Unseen Reflection” isn't universal and is only present at X due to lack of understanding on both sides.
The primary criticisms we hear for Vampirita and Citizen Fang ("a vampire astronaut is ridiculous because of the sun" and "there's no way a werewolf could be a US senator because Congress holds sessions on full moons" respectively) sound like critiques of the premise of the series rather than commentary on the books themselves, in contrast to TQ's statement that the latest Vampirita novel is, quote, "wretched. Even by Vampirita standards." that seems to come from a person who actually gave the books a shot and found them not to his tastes.

If either side had bothered to look any further into their rivals' preferred book, they would have discovered that there are in-universe explanations for why the premises work (such as Vampirita having specific modifications to her space gear that protect her from sunlight or Citizen Fang being the first openly werewolf to hold a senator position). This could possibly occur post-episode as the fandoms' respective leaders, one of whom is the informed TQ, have a budding friendship and likely their respective clubs will follow their leads.

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