Fan Theories thread! Let's hear your fan theories!

"Obi-Wan never told you about your father's wife's boyfriend"
"HE TOLD ME ENOUGH, HE TOLD ME YOU KILLED HIM"
"No Luke…Mace Windu of the Jedi Council is your father. Also Jedi don't allow love and he had a purple lightsabre."

Really makes you think

r34 of anakin prepping mace windu where

CIA is capable of surviving plane crashes, and he brought his gun along because he didn't actually know that you can kill ordinary people by throwing them out of planes without having to shoot them.

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CIA was in cahoots with Bane. He escaped from the cockpit with a parachute, Bane just pretended to punch him.

The plane scene was a metaphor for 9/11.

Didn't the CIA try to kill Jason in Jason Goes to Hell?

The entire film may actually be a metaphor for the War On Terror and events that have arisen since 9/11. CIA and Bane are actually cooperating together under a manipulative (((Hothead))), much like how the USA and ISIS are both working for Israel.

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So he's Darth Sion?

DarthZion

Darth Pion.

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Joker, although a lying psychopath, is actually the hero in The Dark Knight. Before the Joker, Gotham was a mess. Entire sections of the city were closed off due to madness, organized crime ran rampant, and the majority of important city officials were wildly corrupt. The city even tolerated a renegade vigilante who ran around wearing a rubber suit (Okay, special armor and carbon fiber, but they don't know that).

Along comes the Joker and by the end of a very short time, almost all organized crime was eliminated, many corrupt officials were imprisoned or dead, and the city's Vigilante even went into hiding for 8 years. This was all part of Joker's masterfully executed plan.

Everyone must realize that Joker, despite his claim otherwise, really was "The Man With The Plan" throughout the entire film. The very first thing we see Joker do is rob a mafia controlled bank, eliminating the entire team of expert bank robbers who helped him pull it off. Of course, the robbery wasn't about the money, it was about luring Lau out of hiding, preferably with all the major crime families' collective money.

This works beautifully, and as Joker predicts, Batman goes to Hong Kong to "Extradite" Lau. Now Lau is in a safe place which Joker can, amazingly, access with ease. This of course is all just the plot of the film, but Joker is playing it amazingly, murdering key criminals and corrupt officials that could help insulate those at the top. Dent actually argues FOR insulating the men on the top in the interest of cleaning the streets of lower-level goons, but Joker knows that won't work in the long-term.

At this point we honestly just have 3 men battling for Gotham's "soul" (as Joker puts it), but Dent and Wayne are simply playing into Joker's greater plan. This even extends to Joker's threats to destroy a hospital. With Batman and Gordon's help, Joker helps them root out corrupt police officials. Dent even kills some of those officials later in the film.

Gordon's promotion, too, did a major service to Gotham. I think a lot of people take the Joker's clapping during Gordon's promotion scene to be sarcastic, but I actually think that Joker believed in Gordon, one of the few officers on the force who was truly incorruptible.

So now Joker has a pretty clear path to getting rid of the Organized Crime problem and the corrupt officials problem, but the Vigilante problem remains. As we saw at the beginning of the film, Batman was inspiring other vigilantes, and a society cannot stand when each man takes his own justice. This symbol of fear and unbridled vengeance, as Joker sees it, needs to be stopped, but not Killed. If he were killed, he would just be a martyr, and his symbol would live on. Of course, since Dent was a far better symbol for the city, he would make a far better martyr.

I don't know if Joker actually intended for Harvey to be so physically scarred by the explosion from which Batman saved him, but I am certain that he wanted Harvey to feel the full pain of Rachel's death, which is why he purposely tells Batman to go to the wrong address. He knows what Rachel's death would do to Harvey psychologically, and that Batman would eventually have no choice but to kill Harvey. This breaks Batman psychologically, and also makes him a villain, a true villain, the kind that abandons his own principles. Batman now has no choice but to disappear, leaving his memory to fade into something of urban legend by the time of TDKR.

When we pick up in the next film we see a defeated Bruce Wayne who had retired 8 years prior. The city was safe and peaceful (until Bane shows up), and doesn't need constant vigilante justice to keep it safe. Joker shows Batman the error of his ways, but does so in a totally devastating way.

Even the display with the two boats at the film's climax only served to prove to the people of Gotham that they wouldn't turn on each other. He proved that there was good even in the most supposedly despicable of Gotham's inmates.

In the end Gotham is actually clean. It wasn't because of Harvey, who died too soon to do any good, except as a martyr, and it wasn't because of Batman who was ostracized and treated like the criminal such a vigilante truly is for 8 years. Gotham was safe because the Joker had cleaned up the streets. He eliminated the corrupt police, he destroyed organized crime financially, he uplifted Gotham's spirit, and he even got rid of the flying pest that had been corrupting Gotham ever since he declared himself it's protector.

BRAVO, NOLAN!

I was inspired to craft this theory upon recently watching The Force Awakens and noticing that Snoke says "Han Solo" with an absolute contempt in his voice that there was no chance these characters didn't know each other on a personal level.

Let's get one thing out of the way right now: Rey is the long lost daughter of Han Solo and Princess Leia.

Anyone remember the not Disney animated feature that was the most incredible not Disney animated feature from the 90's "Anastasia"?

If you've never seen the film, allow me to describe a movie for you.

A child helplessly watches as a means of transportation carries away the only family she has left.

Years later on the verge of adulthood, the child has been under the care of an abusive authorities figure.

The girl longs to leave the place but due to circumstance can not.

The girl longingly watches a ship depart the place she is stuck.

The girl rescues a helpless character and reluctantly allows it to follow her.

This leads to the girl meeting a young man desperate to escape his past.

The girl finally leaves the place she's been stuck for so long.

The girl is abducted by the villain, the young man pursues and fights for her freedom, ending in him unconcious and the girl fearing for his life.

The girl summons a power within her she didn't know she had and retrieves the villains weapon before he does, much to the surprise of the villain.

The girl is reunited with her family but leaves again to embrace her destiny.

I just described the plot of Anastasia, but this being a Star Wars thread, you probably picked up on some similarities to The Force Awakens.

You're not the only one

Anastasia and the force awakens have strikingly similar stories.
— Jett Lucas (@mrjettlucas) January 16, 2016

That's Jett Lucas, son of George Lucas, who has stated multiple times before that he knows the direction of the sequel trilogy.

Don't just take his word for it.

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The similarities are striking, to say the least.

There's a ton of evidence that's been overlooked that Rey will end up being a Solo. Han and Leia's conversation about "dealing with it in their own ways" was taken to mean the fall of their son Ben Solo, but we know Ben fell in part because he felt like Han was an absentee father. If Ben fell because Han went back to smuggling and was absent from his life, why does he say in TFA that he went back to smuggling to deal with "it" in his own way?

Simple, because "it" isn't talking about the fall of Ben Solo. "It" to quote the visual dictionary, refers to a "deep and profound tragedy" that ripped the Solo family apart. Again, at face value one might take it as a writing inconsistency and think it's just referring to Ben's fall, but peel back the lairs and it becomes clear that some other profound tragedy ripped the Solo's apart.

Something like losing a child.

Think about how obsessed Kylo Ren becomes with Rey. What if his whole fall centered around Snoke convincing him his father was too weak to save his sister? Now along comes this force sensitive girl and he feels like he gets a chance to mentor the sister he never had.

Or Han's stops in mid sentences or how he looks at Rey when she knows the Falcon so well. He's bothered by these things and the acting isn't subtle. The guilt of losing his daughter is shining through.

One of the most maligned issues in The Force Awakens is when Leia embraces Rey and not Chewbacca. It makes a little more sense if you consider she not only lost her husband that day, but her son as well, and down the ramp comes a girl that would be about the same age as the daughter she lost years ago. Suddenly that scene makes a ton more sense.

There's a lot more evidence to this theory in the book Bloodline, which even features a music box with lyrics that perfectly match the most popular song from Anastasia, but I want to keep this theory grounded in the films.

Now if Rey was somehow lost to the Solo's and it played a massive part in the fall of Ben Solo, then it stands to reason that Snoke himself could have been the one to orchestrate Rey's disappearance.

But why? Why does Snoke need Ben Solo? Snoke has an army of Stormtroopers raised from birth to kill. He has the finest military minds in the galaxy. He has super weapons capable of wiping out star systems. What the fuck does he need Ben Solo for?

The answer is that he doesn't. Ben is personal.

Snoke orchestrated the disappearing of Rey to tear the Solo family apart because he felt wronged.

In even further examining the parallels between TFA and Anastasia, it's worth noting that the villain in Anastasia sold his soul for evil powers in order to do one thing and one thing only: destroy a man and his family whine he felt had wronged him.

It just so happens that there is a character in the Star Wars films that would want to rip apart the Solo family for what being wronged by Han (And an absolutely huge theme people are overlooking from TFA is that Han's past is catching up to him with consequences)

Boba Fucking Fett.

Last we saw of Boba, he was tumbling into the Sarlacc pit.

Snoke's face looks pretty fucked up, almost melted. Like the kind of damage stomach acid might do.

In expanded media, there have been tons of events foreshadowing a much more important Fett character.

It is now canon that Fett is the one who tells Vader that Luke is his son. Snoke has an intimate knowledge of the going ins between Vader and Luke. He witnessed Vader's moment of realizing he had a son.

There have been two separate instances of foreshadowing that Boba Fett survived the Sarlacc in Aftermath.

The Knights of Ren. It is incredibly pertinent to know that the planet Mandalore is still canon, but that "Mandalorian" has not yet once been used in canon so far. The term could now be "Mandaloren" as in Mandeloren Knights. The Knights of Ren. This is further backed by several of the Knights wearing Mandaloren armor.

The name "First Order". Snoke isn't trying to bring back the Empire, he's trying to bring back the first ultimate power the galaxy ever saw and bring it back under Madaloren rule.

The story group has said that "Snoke is not human, but he's humanoid". Boba isn't human. He's a clone, this fits.

Snoke knows the name of the Millenium Falcon despite it being inactive on Jakku for god knows how long.

Boba Fett is the second most popular character from the original trilogy to Darth Vader. His return would not be a head scratcher for casual audiences.

Kylo's hilarious quip about leader Snoke considering using a clone army suddenly becomes a brilliant foreshadowing moment.

IN CONCLUSION

My theory is that Boba "Snoke" Fett arranged for Rey Solo to be kidnapped and killed so that he could corrupt Ben Solo and destroy the Solo family, making them suffer a fate worse than death.

Snoke didn't account for the fact that the abductor of Rey (my money is on Phasma) would have a change of heart and desert the girl on Jakku.

Now the re-entrance of Rey into her brother's life will ultimately result in him discovering Snoke was behind it all and will set up a path to his redemption.

I can already see it now at the end of episode 8, another copy. God damn it.

Fucking brilliant.

this is good which means it is not what will happen