What is your favorite inconsequential fan theory?
What is your favorite inconsequential fan theory?
I'm talking about a fan theory, that if true doesn't drastically upend the fundamentals of the fiction it is set in.
Mine is that in the American Dad episode 'Can I Be Frank With You', that Snot's uncle is actually just another Roger persona. He appears suddenly and conveniently to pitch a bizarre scheme, he loves hanging around with teen boys and doing drugs, and the very instant that the plan has a setback he kills himself out of sight of everyone else. That's just Roger in a suit and glasses.
Edit: Ok, so, people are having trouble with the word "inconsequential".
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In the Wizard of Oz, Glenda the "Good" Witch is actually a ruthless drug kingpin.
She used her magic powers to summon a tornado and then merks the Wicked Witch of the East with Dorothy's house. She then puts WWotE's shoes on Dorothy in order to make her a target for WWotE's sister, the Wicked Witch of the West. Glenda then uses Dorothy as a stooge to bump off WWotW, thereby putting herself in control of Oz's vast fields of opium poppies, and cornering the entire opium trade.
It doesn't make sense any other way. Glenda could have told Dorothy to use the ruby slippers to get home at literally any point, but instead sends her on a wild goose chase, and uses her as a blunt instrument to take out the only other bases of power remaining in Oz: the WWotW, and the Wizard, who Dorothy exposes as a fraud. Only then does she tell Dorothy to click her heels, and poof: everything is all wrapped up with a bow, and Glenda's hands are clean. Her two main rivals are dead, and the Wizard is fleeing Oz in disgrace.
It's some fucking Kaiser Söze level shit.
This but she's not a drug kingpin and didn't do the Tornado.
A weird weather event drops a house on one of your 3 rivals and some farm girl steps out. Either it's a bizarre coincidence or she's an equally powerful if not more powerful mage. Either way, you don't want her on your turf so you put a bright red target on her feet and send her after your next rival, who you think may be a fraud. Either she houses more people or she dies, either way it's not Glenda's problem.
In the end, she destroys a government, literally melts Glenda's political and magical equal, and comes back like a lost puppy and Glenda can't risk Dorothy accidentally melting her so age sends her home.
It wasn't a pan, it was cleverly using your windfalls.
In the musical wicked which I suppose is canon and happens at the same time, Glenda reveals to Madame Morrible that the wicked witch of the west will probably show herself if her sister (the wicked witch of the east) is in danger. So Morrible summons the tornado to threaten the sister which coincidentally brings along Dorothy. Glenda secretly was good friends with Elphaba (WWotW) so wouldn't have intentionally gotten her sister killed. There was a lot of politics and propaganda and stuff, but Glenda wasn't really a villain, just a vain person who found it easier to support an autocracy. Someone who has read the books could probably explains it all, sorry if I've ruined your headcanon!