User blog:AustinDR/Fan Theories

Part of the reason as to why I find fan theories pretty stupid is the fact that when you really look into them, they are all the same. They usually range from "this whole show was all just the projection of their imaginations/delusuions/dying dreams. Shoes like Rugrats, Pokemon, and many others have these kinds of explanations for why the show is the way it is. Take Rugrats. It's believed that the babies in the show died a long time ago, and that Angelica imagines seeing and interacting with these passed babies. Ash is supposedly in a coma in the Pokemon anime. While these theories are bad in how they're cliched, but they are also not disprovable. For any show that has weird occurrences happen in it, it can be easily passed off as just a dream or the result of mental illness.

Another theory that is pretty commonly used is the "everyone's dead" theory. In most shows if the characters don't physically age or don't seem to live in the same time period, they are most likely not only dead, but also in a purgatory of sorts. Ed, Edd n Eddy is believed to be about the kids living in a purgatory after their untimely deaths throughout the years, like Eddy dying during the Great Depression thus explaining his greedy tendencies, or Ed loving monster movies and comic books as they had started to gain traction in the 1950s. My Neighbor Totoro is actually about two sisters reuniting in death thanks to Totoro who is actually a Shinigami, and their mother is expected to die soon, hence why she was able to sense her daughters when they were in the tree. Admittedly with those two theories, I do actually like them to an extent because they add more depth to their stories even though they are most certainly not true.

Or then you have drugs. SpongeBob has many theories to it ranging from the people in Bikini Bottom being mutants thanks to nuclear explosions, the characters each representing the Seven Deadly Sins, to each character represents different mental disorders. One theory in particular interprets the characters as being metaphors for drugs. Mr. Krabs for instance is crack cocaine, while Squidward is heroin.

When it comes to the Loud House, though, the only real theory that I despise about the show is the adoption theory as there is no evidence to suggest that it is true. In actuality, there is enough evidence to prove that it isn't true. It's the fact that it gets constantly pushed to be 100% true really grinds my gears because I see it as many people who try to grasp onto the most dubious of evidence so that their head canon could be proven true. Or then the theory shifts to propose that all the sisters may be adopted. That's it, I'm done.