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In General

The islands are a training ground for heroes.

The islands are a training ground for heroes. This theory is supported by the fact that many of the islands in Poptropica feature quests and challenges that require the player to use their skills and courage to succeed. This suggests that the islands are designed to test and prepare players for greater challenges.

Poptropica is a place where people can learn about different cultures and time periods.
 This theory is supported by the fact that the islands in Poptropica are set in a variety of different time periods and locations. This allows players to learn about different cultures and historical events in a fun and interactive way.

Magical Crystals

Apollo from Mythology Island helped the Protectors and the Mole People

The Protectors’ symbol is shaped like a sun. The special treasure room that the Mole People have has a puzzle is in the shape of a sun.Both the Moles and Protectors like to collect crystals. The sun room shows their stash of crystals, not to mention they took a Chthonian egg (without knowing what it is) because of its crystals.The Protectors collected crystals from an island whenever it disappeared.Why would the Protectors make their symbol shaped like a sun? And why would the Moles have their treasure room puzzle shaped like a sun, if Moles are afraid of the light?Well, in Greek myth, the god Apollo was the god of many things, including the sun and oracles. He is also the god who offers help and protection, warding off evil.The Protectors’ main base of operations was powered by a crystal called the Aegis (shaped like their sun symbol). The word aegis means “a protection or support”. Similar to what Apollo does for people (it is also a shield that his family members use).What if Apollo helped the original Protectors many years ago and gave them visions of the future, which inspired them to base their symbol of protection off of him?As for the Moles...Their crystal sun puzzle is colored yellow. There is another magical crystal that’s colored yellow: A protective force shield! I know this item is found on Astro-Knights Island, but I’m willing to assume that like many crystals in Poptropica, you can find them anywhere under any island.My overall conclusion is that Apollo helped both of these groups in their early days. He’s pretty cool like that.

Early Poptropica

Shark Tooth

Time Tangled

In Time Tangled Island when you use the Time Watch Device, you’re not really traveling through time. Well, you are, but not in the way that you think!The watch is designed to travel through time, but since the world of Poptropica exists in this weird little pocket outside the normal timestreams, the time device instead teleports you to different islands that contain the specific time periods on the device.There's a magical barrier preventing time devices from taking people out of Poptropica (unless those time devices contain enough Time Crystals that power them).The alternate future worlds you travel to are also just different islands.

24 Carrot

Super Power

Spy

Nabooti

Big Nate

Astro-Knights

Counterfeit

Reality TV

Mythology

Skullduggery

Steamworks

Great Pumpkin

Cryptids

Wild West

Wimpy Wonderland

Red Dragon

Shrink Ray

Mystery Train

Game Show

Legendary Swords

Test-123 (testing Poptropican and Jorge's former friend) is the hero of Legendary Swords.

He wears the Skull Mask that you find there, and his sword is the Rusty Relic (with a slightly different color). On one of the Legendary Swords posters, the silhouetted person resembles him.

He and Jorge are interested in violent games, and Legendary Swords' gameplay revolves around killing robots with weapons.

Ghost Story

SOS Island

Vampire’s Curse

Twisted Thicket

Poptropolis/Mythology

The lady next to the scoreboard is actually Athena from Mythology Island in disguise.

The Greek Mythology timeline is the main timeline.
Poptropolis Games Island is the ancient capital of Poptropica, so it can be assumed that it was the first Island. All over Poptropolis, there are ancient Greek architecture and statues.Back in the day, there was only ONE timeline. And the world that Poptropolis/Mythology Island came from was the original, main timeline. And Kronos being cut up into little bits is what caused the timeline to split, creating the multiverse (Kronos is the Titan god of Time, among other things).Poptropolis is the only in-game island to be shown to rise and sink. But unlike how it’s portrayed in the graphic novels, it doesn’t go back to its proper timeline. It just... sinks into the ocean

Wimpy Boardwalk

Lunar Colony

Super Villain

Dr. Hare grew up on Funny Bunny Carrot Farm.
Dr. Hare steals all the carrots from 24 Carrot Island, especially the carrots from Funny Bunny Farm (whose mascot he resembles).Dr. Hare's dream in Super Villain Island shows him at a carrot farm, the size of an ant, being taken underground. It is possible that it's the same farm.

The Nexus and/or time crystals in general might have played a part in Mordred’s backstory.

In Binary Bard’s dream, there are blue crystals that power up Binary Bard’s giant clock machine. Time and blue crystals are a recurring theme in his dream. In Astro-Knights Island, Mordred was able to create a portal to another dimension, where he had his Fortress. His portal is made of blue crystals (of a darker variety).

In the graphic novels, the Protectors were able to build a portal to other dimensions out of blue crystals (time crystals). Also in the final novel Binary Bard makes a funny cameo.

The Nexus and/or time crystals in general might have played a part in whatever the heck Mordred became in the future.

Removing the totems didn’t actually turn the villains good.

The four villains screamed “Freedom!” and “I’m outta here!” once they fell out of Erewhon Prison, which is not something a redeemed person would say. There’s also how, in every appearance after the release of this island, the villains are still portrayed as scheming and nefarious.

  • Alternatively, the totems needed to be broken in order for the redemptions to work. Seeing that the final act had the totems preserved, the villains were still in their old mindsets.
  • Then again, the only person who claimed that totem removal would remove someone’s villainy IS Dr. Jupiter.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Zomberry

Night Watch

Back Lot

Virus Hunter

Mocktropica

Monster Carnival

Survival

Survival IslandMyron Van Buren hunts people down not just for fun, but out of loneliness.The newspaper in his trophy room states that he is the last member of his family. Although he says that he hunts people for fun, it could also be his subconscious desire for a friend that won't be able to leave.

Mission Atlantis

Poptropi-CON

Arabian Nights

Galactic Hot Dogs

Mystery of the Map/ Graphic Novels

Zeus created the rift to Poptropica, in the form of a lightning storm.
He brought Mya, Oliver, Jorge, and Octavian to Poptropica because he knew they would be the ones to destroy the Aegis, effectively resetting Poptropica to its original state before the Protectors took over.

The characters from Mystery of the Map Island are from an alternate universe then the characters from the Graphic Novel series.
The Poptropica graphic novels explain that the different islands in Poptropica are different timelines and time periods coming together outside of their respective timestreams.

In the Mystery of the Map Island game, the story of events is slightly different from the novel it was based on. Differences being:

  • Octavian needs help getting out of the tree, instead of getting down himself
  • The children need help getting away from the vikings, instead of escaping on their own
  • The vikings don't take Octavian prisoner at the end, the dodo birds cause him to run off

This could mean that Mystery of the Map Island is from an alternate universe from the events of the novels, where the events would be slightly different. People from alternate universes would be slightly different, as Octavian and the children in the island are slightly less capable than they are in the novel universe.

The Nexus

The Nexus was created by the Titan Kronos, from Mythology IslandThis theory suggests that the Nexus may be part of a larger plan or scheme, and its true purpose may not be fully understood by mortals.

So, what exactly IS this scheme? Well…

When Kronos was defeated by the Greek Gods, ending the Titanomachy, he was chopped up into pieces with his own scythe and thrown into Tartarus. Because he is the Titan god of Time, this is the moment where the Nexus and the Multiverse was created. Kronos created the Nexus to bring different timelines together, in order to find a way to escape.

Timmy Failure

Escape From Pelican Rock

Monkey Wrench

Crisis Caverns

The Mole People from Crisis Caverns Island might live in or near the Nexus from the graphic novelsTheir home shares some similarities:It's deep undergroundIt's filled with various crystalsThe Moles are able to travel to each island (the Nexus is connected under each island).The Mole people and Chthonians are referenced by Jorge in the graphic novel while in the Nexus

Greek Sea Odyssey

Snagglemast

Reality TV: Wild Safari

Fairy Tale

Goofball

The crystals under the island are somehow related to the crystals in the Nexus which are connected to other universes.

The two sides of Goofball island are actually two different dimensions that are crammed together because of the different crystals underneath the island.

Secret of the Jade Scarab

Kraghorn/Grapple-Pap

Grapple-Pap is Rumpelstitskin’s father, or other relative.

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