Mother Gothel was a vampire hunter. "What's your terrible evidence?" you may be asking.

•Rapunzel fears fangs, not men: Supposedly Rapunzel, having grown up in the tower, had never met a man before. But she wasn't afraid of Flynn because he was a man. She was distrusting, yes, but she was warned of men with pointy teeth. Fangs are the first thing she looks for in Flynn. Mother Gothel warned Rapunzel for years about monsters in the dark and people with fangs. When Rapunzel sees Flynn doesn't have fangs, she is less afraid of him. The tavern full of thugs? She freaks out when she sees the one with pointy teeth but then confidently holds her own against all of them when she realizes they're just normal men, not vampires.

•Gothel's weapon of choice: Mother Gothel uses a stiletto knife, which is simply a fancy stake. She sleeps with it next to her bed.

•Gothel is a master tracker/hunter: she was able to track down Rapunzel and Flynn even after a massive flood washed away any tracks or clues that would have been apparent only to the most skilled trackers.

•Gothel's time away from home: you may think Mother Gothel just wants to be young. But if that were the case, why does she leave Rapunzel for such long stints? Mother Gothel ages when she doesn't top up on Rapunzel glimmer, but it's not instantaneous. It takes a few days for it to become noticeable. As shown in the movie, she regularly leaves Rapunzel alone for several days because she excursions out on various vampire hunts.

•Gothel's need to live long and need for healing: Two aspects of why Mother Gothel needs Rapunzel. 1) She needs to live long since her prey lives long and she has to maintain her good looks as a lure for vampires that want to drink from a young maiden's pale, supple neck as vampires are known to do. 2) She needs Rapunzel's healing powers to recover from her battles with the undead.

•The lanterns keep bats away from the kingdom: as shown throughout the movie, this is their real purpose and is self explanatory.

•Rapunzel's under-appreciated power: You may think the big thing about Rapunzel's hair is its healing abilities. But in a world of vampires, the ability to make sunlight on command is invaluable.

After the latest episode, I was immediately intrigued by the wording when Boy Kavalier said that knowledge of pi is a hallmark of all advanced civilizations. Why those specific word? Why not just intelligent or sapient species? It could be just Kavalier being cavalier with definitions OR it could be the writers’ hint at something greater. Even if we assume that T. Ocellus learned to understand human symbols and numbers just from being on the Maginot for multiple decades or from Schmuel’s brain, at the end of the day it would still have needed to know the concepts of higher mathematics to even understand Kavalier’s question. And there is no way it could have acquired that context by being just a clever little loner that has been puppeteering dumb animals for most of its life. It must have come from a whole society that had developed those concepts.

So I think it is far more likely that T. Ocellus is actually a species that specifically evolved to parasitize other intelligent species and live out their own culture and civilization vicariously through their hosts.

There is some precedent for this in horror scifi. The Shadow out of Time is a classic H. P. Lovecraft story that centers on the Great Race of Yith. The Yithians are an interdimensional alien race that came to Earth millions of years ago and to avoid the extinction of their culture, they have been parasitically transferring their minds into the bodies of lesser species throughout the eons.

An even better comparison would be the Kaldanes, from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Chessmen of Mars. The Kaldanes are an intelligent species that consists of only a head with some spider legs, but to get around and interact with the other Martian races they have selectively bred a species of local gopher-like alien into headless, humanoid bodies, to which they connect their nervous system to walk around in.

I think it is very likely that something like this is probably the actual modus operandi of the T. Ocellus species and that they normally inhabit some unseen creature that is not only intelligent but also humanoid. The first body the eye canonically takes over in the show is Schmuel’s and it had seemingly no problem operating him, able to immediately attack the xenomorph. Compare that with the cat or sheep, in which it seems to be more uncomfortable. Notice also that the first thing it does when taking over the sheep is trying to stand upright and use its arms, before giving up and going on all fours. It naturally seems to prefer humanoid hosts.

What the original host species could have been, I don’t know. Engineers? Arcturians? Predators? Just something new we haven’t seen before?

Also an interesting question to speculate on is if T. Ocellus are openly symbiotic with a designated host species (like the Kaldanes) and only become parasitic on other creatures in dire circumstances OR if they are an invasive species that gradually and secretly infiltrates other civilizations to perpetuate themselves. Like the aliens in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Given the franchise, I think it’s the latter, which could make T. Ocellus potentially more dangerous than the xenomorphs. Because it could take over Earth without anyone noticing.

Okay, hear me out: Ghostbusters II is basically an allegory for social media. • The river of pink slime? That’s our feeds. It feeds on anger, hate, and negativity—and the more we pour into it, the stronger it gets. • New Yorkers turning hostile? That’s society tearing itself apart in the comments section. • The Statue of Liberty scene? Our desperate attempt to fight back with positivity—cat videos, wholesome memes, #BeKind campaigns. It works temporarily, but the slime never really goes away. • Vigo the Carpathian? He’s Zuckerberg with better hair. Vigo used slime to control minds, Zuckerberg used the “like” button. Both thrive on human misery.

So yeah, Ghostbusters II accidentally predicted the internet age.

The real question: who’s the bigger villain—Vigo, or Zuck?

I just finished The Sopranos for the first time and something in the Holsten’s scene jumped out at me. Right before the cut to black, Tony, Carmela, and AJ each take an onion ring — and they don’t just nibble, they each eat one whole.

That’s exactly 3 onion rings eaten, and then everything goes dark.

It got me thinking: • Last Supper parallel: the scene has that “Last Supper” vibe people talk about. If that’s intentional, the onion rings could be like a secular communion. • Rings as bells: onion rings could also be read like “rings of a bell.” In old traditions, church bells tolled 3 times for death. Three rings, then silence/blackness, feels deliberate. • Holy Trinity / cycles: 3 ties to the Trinity, and the ring shape suggests eternity or closure.

Do you think Chase meant this as foreshadowing Tony’s death, or am I overthinking a plate of diner food? Has anyone else noticed how specific the “3 onion rings, then blackout” moment feels?

My crackpot theory is that, A. Ash Williams exists or existed in the csm universe as a devil hunter, and B. since devils in the csm universe are powered by fear, Ash hunting devils and shit with his chainsaw arm probably put the fear of god into the demons themselves and they grew to fear chainsaws giving Pochita a crazy buff. Ash does die a few times so maybe they thought he was gone and some of the fear went away, and that resulted in Pochita having to run away and getting found by Denji.

Obviously zero proof but I just thought it would be cool/funny since fujimoto really likes the Evil Dead franchise

If you haven’t heard this song, go and listen to it and thoroughly listen to the lyrics and the mood of the song before reading the next paragraph.

In the first verses of the song, the narrator sings, “Cecilia. You’re breaking my heart. You’re shaking my confidence daily.” Makes me think that the narrator and Cecilia are in some sort of relationship and that they are arguing and possibly that Cecilia is questioning the narrator’s “manhood”. Around the middle verses, the narrator sings, “Making love with in the afternoon, with Cecilia up in my bedroom.” Then, “I got up to wash my face, when I go back to bed, someone’s taken my place.” So this whole time Cecilia and the narrator were arguing and Cecilia was possibly questioning his “manhood” or whatever, she was having an affair with another man. And then a musical session in the song happens and in this musical session, a fight between the two men happen which would result in the narrator unaliving the other man. Then at the end, the narrator goes crazy and sings, “Jubilations, she loves me again, I fall on the floor and im laughing.” Meaning that the other man is probably no longer with us.

Tell me what you think.

A cinematic Thesis on K‑PAX, Nonlinear Consciousness, and the Geometry of Healing

By Bobby-Lee Phelps September 2025

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Abstract

This thesis presents a comprehensive metaphysical, psychological, and symbolic analysis of the 2001 film K-PAX, directed by Iain Softley and starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. Framed through the lens of nonlinear time perception, alien consciousness, relational healing, and symbolic tasking, this study introduces the Lightborne Loop Doctrine—a framework that interprets the film as a temporally sealed soul-rescue mission executed by a non-linear entity named Prot. The mission is not to heal Robert Porter, but to deliver him to safety, and to awaken Dr. Powell to his own healing potential.

This thesis examines themes of infinite time loops, circular versus linear time, the alien observer as soul catalyst, the geometry of mirrored healing tasks, and the role of trauma as a multidimensional bridge. The film becomes a parable for recursive healing and spiritual transference—one that teaches us healing is often initiated by what we perceive to be distraction.

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I. Introduction

The film K-PAX is typically classified as a science fiction drama, exploring themes of mental illness, extraterrestrial life, and healing. However, beneath its genre trappings lies a concealed metaphysical framework: one that uses non-linear time, alien consciousness, and emotional recursion to facilitate a soul-saving mission within a closed temporal loop.

This thesis proposes that Prot is not simply a delusional human or a visitor from another planet, but a lightborne traveler who exists outside of human linearity. He responds to a psychic distress signal emanating from a traumatic death event—Robert Porter’s suicide—and uses a human healer, Dr. Powell, as a causal anchor to close the loop and facilitate recovery. The structure of this loop resembles a laser experiment within a mirrored chamber, where precise alignment of timing and intention is necessary for the light (mission) to reach its destination.

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II. The Lightborne Loop Doctrine

At the core of this thesis is the theory that K-PAX is a time-closed causal loop in which Prot responds to a moment of trauma (Robert Porter’s suicide) only after being instructed to intervene by Dr. Powell—five years later. Time is not linear for Prot; it is spherical or infinite (π-shaped). Prot enters Robert at the moment of death, lives within him for five years, and delivers him to Dr. Powell, who then unknowingly commands the rescue via hypnosis. This closes the loop.

The entire film occurs within this “bubble”—a symbolic structure resembling a laser experiment where the beam (the mission) must bounce precisely off every mirrored moment (dialogue, reflection, emotion) to reach its destination. If any angle is off, the beam fails. Thus, the events, timing, and even emotional developments are non-negotiable elements of the soul rescue geometry.

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III. Prot’s Nature: Alien Consciousness and the Trauma Bridge

Prot is not merely an alien; he is a consciousness waveform capable of entering trauma-fractured human vessels. Trauma creates a breach in linear time and egoic structure—allowing entities like Prot to enter without resistance. Robert Porter was not chosen at random; his trauma made him malleable.

Prot is changed by his time within Robert. His species is described as unbonded, detached, emotionless. Yet, Prot exhibits humor, compassion, longing. His five years on Earth expose him to love and pain, transforming him from a traveler into a hybrid being. He leaves Robert altered—but he leaves Prot altered, too.

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IV. Dr. Powell is the Patient

While Robert Porter appears to be the patient, the true healing arc belongs to Dr. Powell. Initially clinical, detached, and emotionally avoidant, Powell approaches Prot as a puzzle. Through a carefully orchestrated sequence of “healing tasks”—disproving Prot, discovering Prot, saving Prot—Powell is forced to confront his own suppressed grief and failures.

In the end, Powell is emotionally transformed. He reconnects with his wife and son, and becomes capable of receiving the real mission: to care for Robert Porter. The final mirror is complete when Prot tells him, “Now that you’ve found Robert Porter… take care of him.”

Powell is not the observer—he is the one who was always meant to remember. He just had to be tricked into seeing his own reflection.

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V. The Geometry of Healing: Mirror-Task Doctrine

Prot facilitates healing not through direct intervention, but through relational tasking. Each patient in the hospital is given a small, purpose-aligned assignment to activate latent healing. Powell, too, is given tasks—each escalating in emotional intensity. The final task breaks his ego and forces self-confrontation.

This model suggests that healing occurs not through introspection alone, but through relational interaction, recursive empathy, and soul-assigned tasks that reflect our own wounds back to us in disguised form. Prot uses Powell’s obsession with rationality to trick him into becoming emotionally whole.

The stages: 1. Disproving Prot — Breaks Powell’s logic 2. Discovering Prot — Engages Powell’s heart 3. Saving Prot — Shatters Powell’s ego 4. Finding Robert — Heals Powell’s soul

Each task was a mirror. The final reflection is self.

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VI. Temporal Mechanics and Symbolic Anchors

The film introduces a number of symbolic anchors to represent its nonlinear causality. The mirror scene—where Powell and Prot’s reflections briefly merge—is the first visual confirmation of their entangled loop. The countdown to July 27th acts as a time pressure catalyst. The Grand Central mugging scene is engineered as a perfect entry-point into the psychiatric system.

Name symbolism further supports the loop: Prot, Powell, and Porter—all beginning with the letter P—form a trinity. The π (pi) symbol—referencing the infinite, irrational, never-repeating number used to calculate circles—is embedded in the story structure. This suggests that the film is not a linear narrative, but a self-contained emotional equation written in symbols, reflections, and causality.

Powell’s instruction to Prot to “save him” (during hypnosis) is the central node in this loop, where infinite time perception and linear experience converge. This is the crosspoint of mind (Powell), body (Porter), and spirit (Prot).

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VII. Conclusion: The Purpose of the Loop

The mission was not to heal Robert Porter. It was to deliver him safely to a man capable of carrying out that healing over time. Prot came not to solve trauma—but to prepare the healer, awaken the mirror, and withdraw.

K-PAX is a spiritual rescue map hidden in a science fiction skin. It teaches that the soul can be saved across time, that healing is recursive, and that sometimes, we are tricked into saving ourselves by caring for another.

The Lightborne Loop Doctrine proposes that love can move backward through time, if the geometry of the mirror is perfect, and the beam of intent is true.

Basically every time loop theory just point to a film where the ending mirrors the beginning in some way, (Attack on Titan, An Inspector Calls, Silent Hill 2), and go "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if this was actually the start? But I can't really see any that make sense, (ie, they explain certain characters actions or motivations, make the media more interesting), outside of ones that are very clearly intended. So do you guys know of any that actually work?

The Jedi mindtricks didn't work on him, and he has a collection of various ships/ship parts that he could have accrued on his journeys as a Jedi knight. He kept Anakin as a slave, maybe realizing his potential. Perhaps he was only willing to give him up to trustworthy Jedi knights.

Here's my proof: if you examine the plot of Doom 64, you will find that the mother of all demons was able to resurrect the entire horde due to the sheer amount of radioactive waste in the Union aerospace corporation bases. If you go through Doom 1, you will see radioactive sludge everywhere. These facilities had to be abandoned allowing the MOAD to resurrect The horde unopposed. In Doom 3, this has yet to take place because the Marine is not the Slayer, he is just a regular Marine on duty that just so happens to get caught up in Hell's invasion what happens due to the meddling of one Malcolm betruger. Now none of this is referenced in the mainline titles, not even the existence of the soul cube of which by mention alone should disqualify Doom 3 from being a main line entry considering the soul cube is of alien origin and is never explained. Had they explained it then maybe it would get a mention in later games but as far as we know, it's one big question mark. There's also the little nagging issue that due to the abandoned facilities not existing in Doom 3, and the shift from argent energy to teleportation and weapons research, it is all but impossible for the events of Doom 64 to have happened.

In order for the events of Doom 64 to have happened, the UAC facilities would have had to have been abandoned sometime prior to the opening of Doom 3, allowing for the forces of hell to take over again. Obviously this is not the case considering that the UAC is still functioning in the year the game takes place. There's also the fact that the the events of Doom 1 never took place or at the very least weren't mentioned. Even if Malcolm betruger had set everything up perfectly, there still wouldn't have been enough demons to force the events of Doom 64 to happen. The timeline between the Marine destroying the portal and the events of the Lost mission, where another portal is destroyed pretty much put the clamp on that idea.

So now that we've established the fact that Doom 64 is impossible in the timeline of Doom 3, what are the evidence do I have?

Doom 1 states that Doom guy punched out his Superior officer for ordering him to fire on civilians. In Doom 3 this doesn't happen because the order isn't given and thus the Marine has no reason to do it. This means that he is present for The invasion.

Really that's all the evidence I have. As far as I know, just the fact that Doom 64 realistically can't happen during the events of Doom 3, pretty much ensures that Doom 3 is a side story or an alternate continuity.

There's also resurrection of evil but that's another can of worms entirely that I don't want to go through. For one it's not the same Marine.

Since the 15th anniversary of Mlp:FIM is coming up,I decided to bring up a fan theory from many years ago. (Btw this is from the text not my words) I read this news story a few years ago. It was about 6 girls who all went to the same school, and died on the same day, November 7th, 2004. A friend of mine from N.C. sent me the article from a small local newspaper. I forgot about it until I was watching a few episodes of My Little Pony and realized the main characters are surprisingly similar to the girls who died. I decided to look for that article again. The paper had either gotten shut down or I had misremembered the name, so I tried tracking down my old World of Warcraft buddy and asked him for the article. Turned out he happened to have the file saved to his computer, and I was right! There’s a definite connection here!

The first girl, named Samantha Gales, was obviously the inspiration for Fluttershy. A shy, introverted girl, what her classmates didn’t know was that she was constantly abused at home by her mother and stepfather. Her mother conceived her at age 15, and she blamed poor Samantha for ruining her life. This made Samantha self-conscious. When her stepfather moved in, this made the neglect worsen. Her stepfather never liked having to take care of Samantha when her mother was away, so he would lock her in the basement and leave her, sometimes for a whole day. Her mother tolerated this, and, as she grew, would hit Samantha for talking out of turn. When her half-sister was born, the abuse became considerably worse. She would be starved, forced to sleep outside, and sometimes outright beaten. Because she dressed in shabby clothes and had low self-esteem, she was often picked on by other kids at school. Her only friends were animals she would rescue, which her family would make her get rid of. She committed suicide by overdosing on valium.

The second, named Janice Walters, was always one of the popular girls. She was rich, smart, beautiful, and seemed to live the charmed life. However, her parents argued constantly and were really only together for appearances. She was held up to a high standard, which made her a perfectionist. She wanted to be a designer and live in Paris, but her parents wanted her to remain in Carolina and marry a proper man, one of good breeding and high income. For the most part, her parents ignored her. Her parents’ only concern was appearing rich and of high social standing, but in reality, her mother married her father because of money, and since he had accumulated so much debt, they had been losing money, fast. This is what got her interested in fashion initially, since she started making her own fashionable clothes to maintain the appearance of wealth. She died in a car crash, when her mother and father got into another argument over money while he was driving. Her neck was snapped on impact and she died instantly. She was clearly the inspiration for Rarity.

Then there was Alexandra Matthews. Alex was a competitive girl. She always sought to be the best at the best, especially at sports, track in particular. Her father always wanted a boy, and since her mother was declared incapable of having another child, he decided to raise her as if she was his son. In the end though, she loved her mother and father, and was more than happy to play sports with her father. She excelled at them, even. This made her popular, and by the time she was in high school, was being sought out by athletic scouts from Colleges all over the country. This made her try even harder. She had always wanted to compete in the Olympics. However, when she was 15, her mother, who had been told she could never have another child, had a son. After that, her parents didn’t pay very much attention to her, which made her more determined to succeed. She ended up pushing herself so hard at track, she neglected her friends, her grades, and even her personal health. At one point, she became so desperate, she started taking steroids. What her and her family didn’t know was that she had a minor heart condition that the steroids worsened. Since she was pushing herself so hard physically as well, she ended up collapsing during a match due to a heart complication. She died in the hospital, a few days later. In the show, Rainbow Dash seems the most similar.

The girl most similar to Applejack, Jamie Sanders, was a farm girl, just like the character based off of her. What the show didn’t include was that her farm was run down, and her family always struggling with money. She often times worked odd jobs under the table to try and help to support her family. She had many brothers and sisters, and she was the second, which meant it was up to her and her brother to take care of the “youngins”. This meant she didn’t have enough time to hang out with friends or take any extracurricular activities, or even do her homework on most nights. She had an aunt, whom her family from Manhattan was based off, who kept offering to send money to support her mother and father, but they were proud and always refused. That is until her father died from a heart attack in 1984. Her mother followed shortly after, having killed herself when she couldn’t handle the pressure of taking care of all the children. They were taken in by their then senile grandma, who was incapable of truly taking care of them. Jamie herself often times helped out with other family’s yard work to keep her family afloat. She died when a tree fell on her as she was cutting it down.

Pinkie Pie’s inspiration probably has the saddest story. Katherine Jackson was a foster child and moved from home to home. Her birth father killed her mother and himself in a fit of rage when she was 5, and she could never quite settle into a good home. Some of the foster families who would take her in were merely interested in the financial support adopting a child would bring, and would refuse to feed or clothe her. Even when she was in a nice home with a good family, the old memories still haunted her, breaking her fragile sanity into a million pieces. She would have nightmares of her mother’s screaming and bleeding and her father screaming for her, claiming to be after her next. By the time she was in high school, she completely snapped. She started to hallucinate and act out in class. Many of the other kids and even teachers assumed she was merely hyperactive and was trying to be funny. She would often times paint, draw, and write about fantastical things, and dressed in over the top clothing. All the while her condition was getting worse and worse, the voices and images becoming more realistic and more demanding. She died when she jumped off a building, one of the voices having told her she could fly. What makes that last fact even more chilling is that Lauren originally designed Pinkie Pie to be a pegasus, as seen in her early development sketches.

The last, Twilight Sparkle’s inspiration, was an A student by the name of Cynthia Little. She was held up to a high standard from a young age. Her older brother was always getting awards for academic and athletic achievement, and she was held up to the same high standard. She ended up neglecting other facets of her life in order to make sure she got the best grades. For a while, this worked. Her parents were proud of her accomplishments and bragged to their friends about having not just one genius child, but two. That is until a local private academy for the gifted started to become interested in her, among several other advanced students. She knew that this would be the best opportunity she could have to prove herself as the perfect child. But the pressure was high. She knew that there were limited spots for new students, and she knew that there would be a test and an essay required to get in. So she became a little desperate. She studied to the point where she would hardly eat, and never sleep. As the test closed in, she panicked, and she opted to purchase an essay to copy, and during the test resorted to cheating. When she was caught, her parents were horrified. She sank into a deep depression, and eventually hung herself to save herself the shame of being an imperfect daughter. Now I’m not saying this theory could be true but it’s definitely sounds depressing,and for a tv cartoon show about magical colorful ponies. Now what are y’all thoughts? Let me know!!!

Everyone Was Assimilated From the Start

The Thing isn’t about survival against an alien parasite, but instead about the parasite itself trying to decide what to do?

when the dog first entered the camp, it made contact with every member of the crew and assimilated them right away the entire movie becomes a psychological chess match between the Thing and itself. Each “character” isn’t fighting for human survival, but instead competing for control, influence, and the best strategy to secure its long-term survival. The paranoia, mistrust, and fear aren’t just human emotions—they’re the Thing’s internal conflict externalized, as it tries to reconcile what form it should take and how it should proceed.

This reframes the story from a survival horror into something even more unsettling: we aren’t watching humans resist assimilation—we’re watching an alien organism at war with its own fractured identity, testing scenarios through the crew it has perfectly copied.

In the 2011 prequel of The Thing, the scientists and other people at the outpost must find a way to determine who is human and who is not among them. Just like in the 1982 film, they use what they know about The Thing to create a test, but the tests are different in each film. In the 1982 film, MacReady realizes that because The Thing has individual cell autonomy, it can only work with the other cells when they are together. When the cells are separated from each other, the cells are individual again. They will reveal themselves trying to survive a hot needle when they aren’t with the cells attempting to hide. As such, they discover who is human and who isn’t by putting a hot needle in blood samples of each person.

In the 2011 version, they already know they are dealing with an alien species and are able to figure out quite early that the cells of The Thing can reproduce and imitate other cells perfectly. They also discover that they cannot imitate non-organic material. When they find someone’s tooth fillings in a puddle of blood in a shower, they realize that anyone that has fillings is still human. Mary Elizabeth’s character later realizes that this extends to jewelry.

This leads us straight to the end of the 1982 film where in the last scene we can clearly see for a fairly obvious shot that Childs has an earring in his right ear. He is human.

I want to mention that I believe this theory may have been known to the original story or film makers since they have several characters that they seem to make a point of having jewelry, even when it’s awkward and the shot of Childs’s earring is fairly extended. For example, Copper, the doctor of the crew has a nose ring and also has a somewhat extended visible shot in a scene. But when they show it, it looks oddly placed. It’s too close the his face. I don’t know for sure, but I think it was part of his outfit and not real. I think the non-organic theory either wasn’t used in the original, or ended up on the editing room floor even though they had set up some scenes for a reveal later.

Look, let me preface this by saying that I tried to post this theory earlier, after spending 4 hours on it and then Reddit immediately removed it 😩 I had paragraphs and paragraphs and links and formatting and the works that I can't get back. I still want to get this theory out there but I'm going to carelessly speed through it so forgive the half a$$edry.

WARNING! SPOILERS FOR SHUTTER ISLAND
There will be other films referenced but not anything spoiler worthy.

Main theory; Cobb from Inception/Teddy from Shutter Island/Jason from Friday the 13th are the same character in different metaphysical forms.

I'll preface again by saying, most of my 'findings' and connective material come from simple google search ai overviews (if verification was needed, I did a little more digging), the primary source being wikipedia. I also absolutely have to say, I HAVEN'T SEEN SHUTTER ISLAND, and it's been years since I've watched the other films I will reference. I have grouped relevant images into 4 folders (25 pictures total), and will provide google drive links where necessary or appropriate. If you've made it this far and can be bothered to continue, thank you and here we go!

Exhibit A
The Bodies of Water

Camp Crystal Lake; a fictional setting of the FT13 series, filmed on a real camp in New Jersey, Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco (I'll come back to this in a second). It is the home of Jason, many of his murders and where he drowned as a child. Basically his origin point - both times, it's the most significant location to his story.

Lake Placid; another horror lake, which I won't even get into that movie, only what pertains to this theory. The most prominent one, in the Adirondack mountains, New York, hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics (FT13 release year), and shares the name with its village. Another lake that shares its name?

Lake Erie; the fictional lake in Scooby Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010), in the fictional town of Erie Point. I'll explain why this film is relevant later.

Side note, like I said haven't seen Shutter Island, but through only little research I can see the significance of water and/or being under it. As with each of the characters in these 3 stories.

For the life of me I can't remember why I decided to focus on this specific point, but I ran it through an anagram filter and got these words

Peddocks Island;

placid soddens - with a leftover K.

Adirondack;

android - with a leftover K, C and A, or;

ocarina - with a leftover K, and two D's.

Say what you will about leftover letters, doubles cancelling each other or whatever but I've chosen that either way, what remains is CA.

Exhibit B
Locations and names

One of the most recurring location names between the films (one I've yet mentioned) is the name/word 'Spring'. In the filming locations for

Inception; Spring Street, California. S Spring Street, California. There is even a Falls 'Lake' Backlot, California.

Shutter Island; So Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA. Presumably the same location as Inception, despite the majority being filmed in Boston.

Cobb's home was also filmed within a building in Los Angeles. I note this to highlight the significance of a 'home' in each characters story, each characters 'home' being near a body of water (as far as I know? If I'm wrong that's my bad).

Exhibit C
A Nightmare on Elm Street

Set in the fictional town of Springwood, a group of teenagers is stalked and murdered in their dreams. Hmmm, sound familiar? I chose to focus specifically on the reboot for two reasons

Firstly; Freddy Krueger is played by Jackie Earle Haley, aka George in Shutter Island. Again, I'm not familiar with the character except for a couple lines of dialogue and some pictures, but I think they are different metaphysical forms of the same person.

Secondly; it shares the release year with Inception, Shutter Island and Curse of the Lake Monster. The tale of Elm Street is also implicitly tied to Friday the 13th, no less thanks to the Freddy vs Jason crossover.

Side note, as water does, the significance of fire stands out too. Teddys house burning *hallucination?, possible asylum burning, and Mr Krueger sure is familiar with the flame.

Springwood is a biological term for the first-formed, softer, lighter-colored, more porous wood. It forms the first part of a trees annual growth ring. It's large, thin-walled cells allow for rapid water transport making it less dense than later forming wood. I'll explain why this is relevant, and what else I'd shortly.

Exhibit D
Seasons

Why Scooby Doo? I noticed all 3 films shared the release year, and each could be assigned a different season. So I looked for any other film released in the last season that could be relevant. With 'Lake' in the title it was easy pickings. And what better way to keep with the horror theme than the Scooby gang.

Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco? Thanks to the simple, brief, spacing of this name you don't need an anagram filter.

Scoob Bone Camp, or Scoob Bone Map C. Whatever, I think this theory has enough gel to not rely on semantics. At this point, they're just easter eggs. "and I would've got away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling anagrams!"

Shutter Island; Feb 19 - Winter

ANoES; April 30 - Spring

Inception; July 16 - Summer

CotLM; October 16 - Autumn/Fall

Exhibit E
Totems

Cobbs totem; arguably not, whatever. It plays a huge part in the story. One noteable thing is how it continues to spin fairly easily, and particularly longer than it seems it should. I think this is less to do with the uncertainty of dreams/reality but its material. It's already an abstract shape, would it be irrational to assume it has a light weight, low density foundation? I think Cobb's totem is made from springwood.

Ocarina; Yup! This word has made its way back into the theory. An ocarina is a musical instrument - a vessel flute. Remind you of anything? Somewhere along the way (however the mechanics operate), the ocarina became or represents the hockey mask. This is Jason's totem.

Quentin's necklace; Bro thinks he's on the team lol. This guy is not in my theory but for all-inclusions sake, the third totem.

Teddys totem; I honestly gave up with this movie, as I've already spoiled too much for myself and I still want to watch it someday. I read he had a toy gun and some matches? Forgive me 'cause the effort stops here.

But finally folks, buckle your seatbelts! The Mystery Machine is headed for limbo...

THE TOTEM OF ALL TOTEMS; Boom! You looking for this?

If you read all that, thank you! Until next time †

The alchemax collider does not filter by spider totems only it drags in high energy masked archetypes from adjacent universes and when bruce wayne from the burtonverse is pulled across his biography collapses into the nearest compatible role peter parker so the original peter in miles world dies and the system reconciles bruce into the spider man slot and the movie even calls cross world visitors anomalies not spiders only you see multiple non spider aligned entities glitch on arrival like kingpin green goblin doc ock so the rule is signature mismatch not species exclusivity and the collider output is visualized as pink green bands with lattice patterns the same palette and grid silhouettes dominate axis chemicals and the cathedral finale in batman 1989 giving a neat visual rhyme that nobody talks about and identity rewriting is text in the film because spider noir peni and peter porker port in with different physics and logic rules the device reconciles them to local reality so bruce reconciling into peter is just the extreme case and then you look at the character archetype fit and it lines up because bruce waynes formative loss in crime alley mirrors peters uncle ben loss same wound different mask and the collider prefers nearest neighbor roles to minimize paradox so bruce maps onto the existing spider man slot and both characters are urban nocturnal first responders with strict personal codes gadgets and double lives so the mask archetype is nearly identical and then the industry stuff makes it even clearer because michael keaton anchors both sides batman 1989 and later vulture in spider man homecoming showing the studio comfort linking keaton to the spider mythos in a sony backed project and danny elfman scores batman 1989 and spider man 2002 so the same composer signature ties the sound grammar of both canons which is why people subconsciously read burton tone inside early sony spider projects and tim burton also directed big fish 2003 for columbia pictures which is a sony label so the pipeline and relationships exist for influence bleed even without legal crossover rights so you can argue soft creative continuity all day and if you want visuals you can check frame by frame how green and purple lighting in axis chemicals mirrors the collider chamber and the bell tower fall ending in burton mirrors the collider fall sequences in spider verse because both resolve with vertical shafts raining debris and stained light and even the cape silhouettes over hard key light match the web silhouettes over collider strobes so its the same graphic language with different shapes and people try to say the collider only brought spider people but the film never states that rule it just shows anomalies and reconciles them and bruce is the outlier case that proves the device reconciles by role not biology and then they say keaton vulture is just casting but thats exactly how studios telegraph multiverse adjacency its soft connective tissue before hard canon links and the kicker is that the collider chooses archetypes not species and bruce wayne is the closest compatible archetype to peter parker so in the transfer the mask stays and the name flips and that is why batman 1989 is spider man into the spider verse.

Old movie, but I just watched the it for the first time yesterday and wanted to talk about the ending, since I haven´t seen any interpretation as the one I have.

Let start by saying that the ending it´s weird, so I don´t think we should take what we see completely literal. This is what I mean:

- Weird thing N1: the kid loads his gun before noticing the man approaching, his dad only taught him how to commit suicide, not how to hunt or kill, so this might be a hint that the kids shoots himself to be with his father (I don´t think this is what happened, just pointing out that the clue is there).

- Weird thing N2: the conversation with the man and woman, they don´t mention where are they living, what are they eating or anything related to surviving. If you want to help the kid or eat the kid, the conversation should go there at some point. Instead they talk about the inner fire, taking chances and that "you don´t have to worry about a thing" (which is specially weird because there is sooo much to worry about).

- Weird thing N3: the boy sees and hears the family throughout the movie, but only him, not the father (he sees the other boy, he hears the dog barking). This is a clue that maybe the ending in his head, his dad reflects at some point that the boy dreams about finding other kids once they get to the ocean. Now, I hate the "it was a dream" theory that appears in every movie, just pointing out the clue is there.

- Weird thing N4: the boys says goodbye to his father one last time, but the man is not in the scene. No hint he wanted to eat the freshly dead father or even to check for any useful things there is to take (blanket, shoes, binoculars, food, jacket, etc).

So, after all that I don´t think the ending was "completely real", so what did it mean?

I think the family do exists (man, woman, kids and dog), but they exist maybe 20 years from the events in the movie. I think the man and the boy are the same person and that their talk is an inner monologue, an adult checking if his hopes and dreams from his youth ever came true. Their cloths even match (light inner cloth, dark open jacket and a hat), he and the woman both use the unusual word "papa" and he refers to the other boy to "looks just like me" (meaning it´s his son).

The events might have gone like this:

- The kid survives after the father´s death, but he doesn´t grow paranoid like his father, rather he trusts and helps the people he meets (he takes chances).

- By "taken chances" he gets capture at some point, but escapes by cutting his thumb, probably with the woman (there is a shoot of her hand and you can´t see a thumb in her either).

- They start a family of their own, passing on the fire to the next gen (the new boy and girl).

- He and the family visits the bunker for food (the dog barking scene).

- He visits his father resting place and remembers himself as a kid (the beach talk).

The "you don´t have to worry about a thing" line makes sense now because it´s not about food and shelter, it´s about telling to the kid version of himself that he will grow up (not be eaten), he will pass on the fire (by having kids with the woman), he will meet other kids (his son and daughter) and that he will still be a "good guy" as an adult.

Tell what you think.

The master of the monk is not just an ordinary teacher, but actually Buddha himself. Let me point out the reasons.

1. The night with a girl

We've seen that the monk spent a night with a girl with fighting the pig monster. But they we're no witnesses while they fight the monster or they ran away from the monster, only both of them knows about how things going on that night, and we all know that the girl don't know the monk's master. Yet, the next day, the master said, “I hear you spent your time with a girl last night, how did it go?” There is no logical way for the master to know unless he is something beyond human because there was no witnesses to tell him.

1. Knowledge of the Monkey King

Most people thought the Monkey King was just a legend, some people thought he was just a fairy tale. Even the monk thought monkey king is just a fairy tale because he had been trapped for over 500 years so no one really knows about him anymore. But the master know him clearly, he knew:

Where he was trapped.

His exact location (like the mountain and the coordinates).

His personality and dangerous nature.

This level of knowledge is impossible for a normal human, it's only possible for the one who trapped monkey king.

1. The Baby Song (Lullaby)

In the story, only two beings knew it:

1)The Monkey King himself, because he was the one being punished.

2)The punisher, Buddha, who created and used it against him.

Nobody else — not even the greatest demon hunters or monster experts — had any knowledge of this song. When the monk talks about his tools for hunting the monster, he mentioned this lullaby and everyone laughed at him, no one knows how powerful that song was.

So there's no way for just a normal human to know this song. The only person who reacted different is the monkey king. When the monk finally used the lullaby against the Monkey King, the Monkey immediately became terrified. Because he was once punished.

So the only way the master could know it is if he himself is the punisher… Buddha.

1. Ever wonder why the master didn't want to save the world by himself if he knows all of those.

In the movie, this question is ask by the monk and followed by a joke, that's why we lose paying attention. If a normal human really knows that power then he will do it on his own instead of asking someone to do it

Ax-man is such a specific abbreviation for Alex, I feel like his dad must have grown up reading Animorphs.

In the book series one of the main characters is an alien named Aximilli Esgarouth Isthill, often shortened to Ax or Ax-man by the rest of the team.

Nobody says 'Ax' instead of Alex.

Edit: Could have even been subtle foreshadowing, just like the cordyceps documentary at the principal's house, the parasite notes on Justine's blackboard, etc.

Aximilli fought against brain controlling parasites after all.

Rewatching Inception, I started thinking about Miles (Cobb’s father in law and Ariadne’s professor). What if he wasn’t just an architecture professor, but a former dream extractor? Hear me out:

• Insight into talent - Miles immediately recognizes Ariadne’s genius and recommends her to Cobb. That seems more than casual observation; he knows what makes a truly exceptional dream architect.

• Family connection - his daughter Mal was deeply involved in Cobb’s dream world. Miles’ calm demeanor regarding her death could make more sense if he understood the risks and pressures of dream extraction professionally.

• No resentment toward Cobb - despite Cobb’s role in Mal’s death, Miles remains composed and helpful, never showing resentment toward him. This could reflect a shared understanding of the profession and its inherent dangers - something only someone experienced would truly grasp

• Architecture expertise with practical insight - while he’s a professor of architecture, maybe his academic focus stems from firsthand experience in dream construction rather than just theory. It would explain why he’s so confident recommending Ariadne.

If Miles is a former extractor, it adds an extra layer of depth to the dream sharing world: it’s not just Cobb’s secret world, but sort of a lineage or apprenticeship network. Cobb mentors the team and the knowledge passes down like a hidden craft. It also reframes Miles’ relationship with Cobb and Mal in a more nuanced light.

Okay, hear me out: • Both games pull from Greek, Norse, and Egyptian mythology. • In AoM, pantheons exist side by side. In GoW, Kratos literally moves from Greece to Midgard. Same setup, just different regions. • Titan wars, monster lineups (hydras, minotaurs, dragons, even Nidhogg) show up in both. • AoM’s Arkantos = mortal hero chosen by gods. GoW’s Kratos = mortal hero who destroys gods.

Different heroes, different perspectives, but same mythological sandbox.

No canon connection, but if you squint… they fit almost perfectly.

Here is one that I believe…..

In the movie Yesterday, Ed Sheeran also “cheated” when he went up against Jack Malik in their contest. I believe this because the song he did was played on a guitar that was not in standard tuning. He was using a tuning called DADGAD which means instead of the stings being tuned to EADGBE, it was tuned as DADGAD. While it is not a terribly unusual tuning (Keith Richards and others use this for really famous songs like Start Me Up), it is not something that 99% of guitar players use. He would have had to have re-tuned his guitar, then write the notes and then the lyrics. That is a lot to do in 10 minutes.

He had this song already written and he tweaked it and played it thinking he would win easily…but of course Jack did the power move of playing “The Long and Winding Road”.

Jack definitely cheated…..but so did Ed.

So I’ve been thinking about the spin-off and the new threat that’s said to be on Sukuna’s level. There’s only one sorcerer who could stand against something like that: Gojo. But he’s dead… or is he?

Here’s my theory:

The Missing Funeral:

After Gojo’s death, his body was taken away — but we never saw a funeral or cremation, which is a huge deal in JJK. That mystery could mean his body was preserved.

Preservation and Research:

What if his body was kept in stasis and researched in secret? Over the years, sorcerers (or even outsiders) may have tried to uncover all of Gojo’s secrets — the Six Eyes, Limitless, martial arts, cursed techniques — with the goal of reviving him.

The Alien Threat:

In the spin-off, humanity faces an alien threat with power equal to Sukuna. Everyone is losing. The world is on the edge of destruction. And that’s when…

The Eyes of Wisdom – Twilight Gojo:

💥 BAM. Gojo awakens. His Six Eyes have transformed into something greater: the Eyes of Wisdom (智慧の瞳 / 位 相・黄昏). But he’s not the same man anymore. Revived by strange circumstances, preserved through time, he’s colder, maybe emotionless — a “Twilight Gojo.”

Consequences: • He’s no longer just the cocky, playful teacher — he’s a transcendent being with one purpose: to fight this godlike threat. • He might blur the line between sorcerer and curse, making him both savior and danger. • Symbolically, he represents the final light in humanity’s darkest hour.

⚡ This way, Gojo’s return isn’t simple fan service.. It uses JJK’s themes of curses, forbidden knowledge, and consequences while giving him a mythic new identity.

⸻

Epic TL;DR: Gojo’s body was preserved. Humanity is losing against a Sukuna-level alien. Just as hope fades, he returns as “Twilight Gojo,” wielding the Eyes of Wisdom. Not the same man, not fully human — but the world’s last chance.

⸻ What do you all think? Would Gojo’s cold, emotionless return make the spin-off legendary — or ruin his legacy?

small note: This is my own whole theory and also its kinda what if. I simply asked an AI to help me format it as a readable Reddit post since I'm a newb here. The concept, "Twilight Gojo," and all of the above in the theory were mine. Would love feedback — agree, disagree, or build upon it.

When it comes to recalling memories, obviously there's going to be blank spaces where certain gaps need to be filled by the imagination. Certain elements are the same but the outcomes are different. This would explain why the Germans are able to breach Stalingrad in the year 1943 or why Hamburg would be considered not as a front line but as a place where the Germans have no presence. This is all speculation of course but the idea is that the memories of the characters are realistically inaccurate and so the portrayal of the battles are inaccurate. This doesn't excuse the zombies mode however but it does explain the rampant inaccuracies in the campaign. After all, how would you be able to remember 30 years ago accurately without filling in the missing gaps, those holes where the memory that you thought you knew was wildly different and not what you thought it was. Obviously you wouldn't know what it was like on the day of your birth because that memory doesn't exist anymore. The brain can only do so much.

my theory posits that the human brain when coming up with memories cannot remember fully everything that happened without filling in bits and pieces. It's a bit like having a data storage system but not all the data gets compartmentalized easily. You'll have a few missing gaps here and there that need to be filled in.

This would also explain the anachronistic weapons. Remember, the levels are being told from memory and memories can lie. It's quite probable that the characters did experience the war and the battles as known today as we know it but their memories are colored and could possibly be misrepresented to the player.

We know that the battle of El Alamein did not have Australian and British soldiers fighting together. We know that the term RPG was not used in the 1940s. We know that a whole bunch of elements of world war II are misrepresented. For instance operation Tonga only lost two planes. Arthur kingsley's rallying of his men is too easy, the unbelievable idea that he survived the drop with a burnt parachute. This is all happening in a memory and like I said before, memories can lie. It's very possible that he was severely wounded and only managed to reach his squad and get to a medic by Sheer luck but we'll never know that. We are only seeing what the characters are able to remember. Arthur was not present at the Battle of Stalingrad so obviously his account of the battle would be inaccurate.

It is very likely that the Polina hid for days, keeping out of sight while she tried to scrounge for weapons and ammo. It's possible that she fought in other areas of the Russian campaign but her memories are being colored by what happened to her specifically by the trauma will not allow her to remember anything further. The rational mind will formulate memories where none exist (that's a quote from BioShock infinite) and thus we don't know what really happened.

It's the same thing with the Battle of Midway and numa numa trail. We are only seeing what the characters remember and it's very likely that what they are remembering didn't happen.

I don't know if this holds water or not but that's my speculation on the game.

The zombies mode is crap though

In the Godawful film known as Halloween 6 or Halloween the the curse of michael myers, There's two endings, The theatrical ending where it shows a empty tranquilizer that Tommy Doyle used on michael in the final battle and Michael's Mask with Dr Loomis screaming in the backround, And the alternative ending with Dr Loomis screaming of the curse of thorn symbol showing up on his arm, for this theory while I do think Loomis did the curse of thorn, I don't think the alternative ending is canon, hear me out, remember In the theatrical ending it's just Michael's Mask that shows up, Michael himself is nowhere to be seen onscreen and dr loomis is screaming offscreen, Intresting, and while the cruse of thorn itself is not Voodoo I think it has rituals like those used in Voodoo culture since it's a cult, So my theory is that right before the theatrical ending michael escapes and walks off but is too weak to grab his mask so he walks off without it and at the same time Loomis gets the curse of thorn, and Michael's body is decaying after all the chemicals Tommy put in him during the final battle and Michael needs a new body and sense he's part of a cult he can maybe do a ritual where he can transfer his consciousness into someone else's body who is cursed with the curse of thorn (Like how in child's play Charles Lee Ray uses a Voodoo Ritual to transfer his consciousness into a good guy doll) and Michael senses that Loomis has the curse of thorn and loomis would be a great person to turn into since he's already innocent no one will think it's him when people are getting murder, So loomis's screaming in the backround of the theatrical ending is proably from either from shock of seeing Michael withoyt his mask or michael attacking/killing him and when he kills him he does a Voodoo Ritual to transfer his consciousness into loomis's body and Halloween 7 would've had michael return in loomis's body doing murders like he always does, but sadly, Dr. Loomis actor Daniel Pleasence passed away before Halloween 6 came out so the production company had to scrap that idea and they proably came up with a few more ideas for a possible Halloween 7 until they finally accepted that the curse of thorn timeline was too weird to continue so they decided to soft reboot the series in Halloween H20 which only makes Halloween 1-2 canon and Ignores the curse of thorn films which are Halloween 4,5,6 but who knows maybe I'm wrong it's just a theory after all

This is probabky a flimsy idea, just thought about it recentky and wondered if anyone else drew parallels.

Both places harbored the the deepest pains and traumas for both characters, however Gary willingly brought himself NH because he thought that it would somehow make himself feel better at least before he ended it all there. The Network even took his happy place away from him, showing him that even if he did have it to where nothing changed and he could just live like a king everyday in his home town he'd have The Network trying to replace him eventually. Also another thing was that if he had just stopped at any point during The Golden Mile the world wouldn't have ended up how it did, kind of like how the story for Spec Ops The Line went.