Fan theories that you think make sense

[Ultimate Paragon]

There are some fan theories that actually make a lot of sense.  I'll go first.

In the classic sitcom Seinfeld, Kramer wass a fucking weirdo, even by the standards of the show.  He somehow managed to be a successful ladies' man, despite the fact that he was neither attractive or charming.  He never held a job, but always seemed to have money.  And that's not even getting into his eccentricities.  The explanation: Kramer really did have a job - if you can call pot dealing a job, that is.  It appeared that he made a good profit, even though it also appeared that he smoked a considerable percentage of what he was selling.  This theory explains: why he always had lots of money (always in cash, naturally) even though he didn't have a conventional career; why he was always in a daze; why he was always hungry; why he always seemed to be horny; why he was constantly falling over things; why his social network extended far and wide - even though he was an unmotivated doofus; and why he had strange people in his apartment at all hours of the day and night.

[R. U. Sirius]

James Bond is not a single person. Rather, the James Bond alias is the designated cover identity of whichever agent is assigned the 007 designation.

Bruce Wayne managed to live incognito after the end of "The Dark Knight Rises" by the simple fact of the location he chose. In the first movie, Falcone comments that he's "the prince of Gotham" and he'd have to go a thousand miles to find someone who didn't know his name. Since he and Selina Kyle are living in Europe, it's far more likely than it would be in America for him to pass unnoticed. Even if someone did recognize him, he could claim to simply be a lookalike.

All of Superman's powers other than his sensory abilities are actually forms of telekinesis. His heat vision is him using it to make the molecules in an object vibrate faster and faster, thus generating heat. His super-strength is simply him either striking his target with a telekinetic blow at the same time as his fist lands or, in the case of lifting objects, a more limited form that only works on things he touches. This also explains how he can safely lift objects that should collapse under their own weight-he instinctively extends a telekinetic sheath around them, so the object's weight is actually spread out rather than focused entirely on the point of contact. His invulnerability is a manifestation of a similar telekinetic shield that extends only a millimeter or two out from the surface of his skin.

The Jedi were far more influenced by the Dark Side than they realized, at least by the time the original trilogy takes place in. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda trained Luke explicitly to use as an assassin against his own father, lying to him about it right up until Yoda's deathbed; if they were as pure as they claimed, they would have told him the truth from the start and encouraged his efforts to turn Vader back to the Light, rather than constantly telling him it was hopeless.

[Art Vandelay]

In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Link is actually dead and Termina a sort of purgatory. It's geography makes absolutely no sense, for one thing. It's not underground, yet found at the bottom of an insanely deep pit in the Lost Woods (not only geographically impossible, but most conveniently the return journey is also impossible). The name "Termina" is quite similar to the word "terminal", meaning "the end". The moon is not only far too small and falls far too slowly, but it's somehow gone completely unnoticed in Hyrule and other areas that the moon at one point almost crashed into the earth. The residents of Termina are almost all (physically) carbon copies of people that Link has known in Hyrule. The aptly named "Song of Healing" which, instead of medically healing the listener, soothes their troubled spirit so they may move on. Even when the listener isn't actually dead yet, e.g. Mikau. Most compelling of all, the five areas of Termina, Clock Town, Woodfall, Snowhead, Great Bay and Ikana Valley, each not only represent the five stages of grieving, (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, respectively), but they're also must be completed in that order. Finally, it's made very clear from the very beginning of the game, even before his first encounter with Skullkid, that Link is going somewhere, and his ending up in Termina is completely unintended. However, it's never even hinted, much less revealed where he's going. Considering it's the reason he ended up in Termina in the first place, it's rather suspect that it's outright ignored.

I have to say, it's certainly one of my favourite fan theories.

[Katsuro]

James Bond is not a single person. Rather, the James Bond alias is the designated cover identity of whichever agent is assigned the 007 designation.

That one always made sense to me, some of the movies even make little jokes about it.  But they kind of screwed that theory in Skyfall with

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Bond's parent's gravestone.

Which is bit odd, considering all the references in the film to previous James Bond movies.  Unless

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MI5 retroactively altered his parent's gravestone to match his code name to keep his true identity secret.  But I think that's clutching at straws a bit, as in order for anyone to figure out that gravestone belonged to Bond's parents they'd already have to know enough about him, such as where he grew up (in order to know Bond has any connection to the gravestone or that location at all), that they probably already know his real identity anyway.

[chitoryu12]

The Jedi were far more influenced by the Dark Side than they realized, at least by the time the original trilogy takes place in. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda trained Luke explicitly to use as an assassin against his own father, lying to him about it right up until Yoda's deathbed; if they were as pure as they claimed, they would have told him the truth from the start and encouraged his efforts to turn Vader back to the Light, rather than constantly telling him it was hopeless.

Also, the post-film EU tends to debate a lot about how correct the Old Republic Jedi truly were in regards to their black and white view of the universe. Luke's new academy on Yavin IV is explicitly much more liberal than the old order, which was a more exclusive and cloistered group with a strict view on how the universe operated.

Kenobi and Yoda could have realized during the Clone Wars that they could no longer pretend to be the ultimate force for good in the galaxy and their old methods were flawed; sometimes, you need to do bad things to achieve good ends.

[Witchyjoshy]

I dunno if this is a fan theory, but the Grey Jedi (the ones who use both the dark and light sides of the force) are, in my opinion, the truest masters of the Force.  In my opinion, the reason a Jedi falls so sharply to the Dark Side is because they spend so much time repressing their very selves that they are unable to function when they lose control.

Emotion must be tempered with discipline, but Discipline must be tempered by Emotion.  That is true balance.  Not the denial of everything that makes you you.

If anything, I'd say that the Light Side of the Force causes almost as many problems as the Dark Side, except that it's subtle.  Holier-Than-Thou arrogance seems to be a common trait among Light Side Jedi, when they aren't being Incorruptibly Pure.

[chad sexington]

James Bond is not a single person. Rather, the James Bond alias is the designated cover identity of whichever agent is assigned the 007 designation.

This was part of the plot of the original Casino Royale, if I remember correctly.

[chitoryu12]

I dunno if this is a fan theory, but the Grey Jedi (the ones who use both the dark and light sides of the force) are, in my opinion, the truest masters of the Force.  In my opinion, the reason a Jedi falls so sharply to the Dark Side is because they spend so much time repressing their very selves that they are unable to function when they lose control.

Emotion must be tempered with discipline, but Discipline must be tempered by Emotion.  That is true balance.  Not the denial of everything that makes you you.

If anything, I'd say that the Light Side of the Force causes almost as many problems as the Dark Side, except that it's subtle.  Holier-Than-Thou arrogance seems to be a common trait among Light Side Jedi, when they aren't being Incorruptibly Pure.

Basically, Light Side Jedi are highly repressed fundamentalist housewives and the Sith are angsty teenagers.

This was part of the plot of the original Casino Royale, if I remember correctly.

If you mean the original book, no. James Bond in the novels was always the same guy.

However, the terribly campy 1960s Casino Royale film included that as a plot point because Peter Sellers was upset at it being a comedic Bond film and quit, so they introduced a ton of "James Bonds" as aliased agents to try and save face.

[Katsuro]

I dunno if this is a fan theory, but the Grey Jedi (the ones who use both the dark and light sides of the force) are, in my opinion, the truest masters of the Force.  In my opinion, the reason a Jedi falls so sharply to the Dark Side is because they spend so much time repressing their very selves that they are unable to function when they lose control.

Emotion must be tempered with discipline, but Discipline must be tempered by Emotion.  That is true balance.  Not the denial of everything that makes you you.

If anything, I'd say that the Light Side of the Force causes almost as many problems as the Dark Side, except that it's subtle.  Holier-Than-Thou arrogance seems to be a common trait among Light Side Jedi, when they aren't being Incorruptibly Pure.

Basically, Light Side Jedi are highly repressed fundamentalist housewives and the Sith are angsty teenagers.

This was part of the plot of the original Casino Royale, if I remember correctly.

If you mean the original book, no. James Bond in the novels was always the same guy.

However, the terribly campy 1960s Casino Royale film included that as a plot point because Peter Sellers was upset at it being a comedic Bond film and quit, so they introduced a ton of "James Bonds" as aliased agents to try and save face.

The word "plot" is being used very loosley when used in relation the the 60's Casino Royale lol.

[kefkaownsall]

I have this idea that Kaoru Nagisa continually reincarnates in order to save his boyfriend

[Random Gal]

In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Link is actually dead and Termina a sort of purgatory. It's geography makes absolutely no sense, for one thing. It's not underground, yet found at the bottom of an insanely deep pit in the Lost Woods (not only geographically impossible, but most conveniently the return journey is also impossible). The name "Termina" is quite similar to the word "terminal", meaning "the end". The moon is not only far too small and falls far too slowly, but it's somehow gone completely unnoticed in Hyrule and other areas that the moon at one point almost crashed into the earth. The residents of Termina are almost all (physically) carbon copies of people that Link has known in Hyrule. The aptly named "Song of Healing" which, instead of medically healing the listener, soothes their troubled spirit so they may move on. Even when the listener isn't actually dead yet, e.g. Mikau. Most compelling of all, the five areas of Termina, Clock Town, Woodfall, Snowhead, Great Bay and Ikana Valley, each not only represent the five stages of grieving, (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, respectively), but they're also must be completed in that order. Finally, it's made very clear from the very beginning of the game, even before his first encounter with Skullkid, that Link is going somewhere, and his ending up in Termina is completely unintended. However, it's never even hinted, much less revealed where he's going. Considering it's the reason he ended up in Termina in the first place, it's rather suspect that it's outright ignored.

I have to say, it's certainly one of my favourite fan theories.

The fact that he has a descendant in Twilight Princess would invalidate that particular theory. If he'd died before being old enough to have children, Twilight Princess couldn't happen.

[ironbite]

And then we get Wind Waker.

Ironbite-have you not seen the split Zelda timeline?  Both theories are...valid.

[kefkaownsall]

The official timeline is weird mostly since there are 3 timelines
Majoras mask and Twilight princess are on the same line

[ironbite]

Yeah...that's just weird.



Ironbite-though actually the leading theory is that Link never got out of the Lost Woods which lead to Twilight Princess.

[Vypernight]

Sheppard was indoctrinated, which is why the Destroy Ending is the only ending in ME3 (unless you count the Refuse) that ends with the Reapers defeated.