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Among these melon-twisting theories is the one where Squall was dead for most of Final Fantasy 8, the one where Shepard was being indoctrinated for most of Mass Effect 3, and the one where Overwatch hero Soldier 76 is the dad of fellow hero Pharah.
A personal favourite however, is the theory that in Bioshock Infinite Songbird's giant robotic suit houses yet another version of protagonist Booker Dewitt from yet another alternate dimension.
The game's Burial at Sea DLC showed us that there is a human inside Songbird, and with several different versions of Booker running around, who is to say one didn't end up inside a giant robot bird shell?
It would explain why he's so protective of Elizabeth, and only rank somewhere in the middle of the worst things ever done by the city of Columbia.
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In Bully, a movie called "The Sequel" can be seen playing in the theater. In GTAV, you can find posters all over the city for "The Sequel 2".
So there making a sequel to the sequel awesome
@@BennyGoId no one cares Also you didn’t add a full stop after they’re
@@RickyPro888 No one cares. Plus, you forgot a comma after “also”.
@@RickyPro888 People may be English learners. While the approach comes across as a bit crass, it could actually be helpful to English learners to better understand the rules. The commenter didn't just correct them; they explained the difference between two homophones (words that sound the same but have different spelling). Regardless if we agree or not, have a nice day. :)
@@joshcantrell8397No one cares. Plus, you didn’t add a comma before, “ “also”. “.
I always felt that Chel and GLADOS had more of a sisters vibe honestly. The constant adoption jokes, making fun of her but stopping others from doing the same, homicide attempts.......more sibling feel than parental imho.
I mean you could argue that since GLADOS was a copy of Caroline's mind, and not actually Caroline herself, GLADOS could be considered Caroline's daughter as well. Sort of like how Cortana was made from a snapshot of Dr Halsey's brain, but isn't Dr Halsey.
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I never noticed the whole "Booker, Comstock and Songbird all die by drowning" thing, would definitely fit with the Variables and Constants theories.
sure, but also: drowning itself is a statement in itself. water has a varity of meainings in bioshock. bioshock1 and 2 take place under water completely, with many sections of flooding. the crash in the first game leads to all people probably dieying drowning. in bioshock 3 water has religious meaning, as you have the baptism scenes, you have to boat sections (which are a bit like a styx ride), etc. Id say, that if anything, the big constant is, that water is both giving and taking life. water flows and you flow to, with a life that starts somewhere and ends somewhere in the stream of time.
I liked the idea that Reinhardt was Pharah's dad. If you look at the uncommon skin names, Ana's are all precious stones, Reinhardts' are all hard metals, and Pharah's are two of each
I really like the idea of a Halo character named Dustin Echoes, fighting parallel battles to MC across the universe trying to reach the Chief to avenge his fellow Marines.
I think Sargent Johnson is Dustin Echoes, like it's a codename.
I have searched far and wide for that 2 second clip of Jane quietly and heartbrokenly saying "my project!" It's actually an inside joke with my sister now
For the Halo Theory, it's more likely that Chief didn't want to unbalance the pod with his half ton armor. standing in the center would have distributed the weight
ULTRAMANZX And his Spartan strength allowed him to hold on easily. Or his armor might've locked up (like it did when he fell from space at the beginning of Halo 3) Either way, him bracing himself instead of sitting down and putting on a seatbelt is actually the smartest move he could've possibly done.
I mean, coming in at the speed and velocity, not to mention the trajectory, that's shown....truthfully I don't know why the damn thing didn't blow and vaporize most of everything like it would in say an airplane crash of the same variables. Even if his half ton armor was pinging around, (which from where he was standing, technically he should have gone flying backwards and smashed into the pilot only, OR went flying forwards into the door and smashed through (depending on how the shuttle hit)) which is highly unlikely, the impact would have caused such internal damage to the occupants that ALL of them should be dead, including Master Chief. (Also, huge swatch of water right there that they could have landed in and softened impact, allowing more people to survive...yet Cortana lands on ground. WTF??)
13thMaiden A few points to remember are: 1. The game takes place in 2552, their technology is clearly not the same as ours. You can't base half of your assumptions off of our technology. 2. Chief would not have been tossed around like a rag doll... as long as the hand rails he was holding onto could support the combined weight of the MJOLNIR armor and force of the impact. 3. Cortana could not have landed in the water because she wasn't driving lol.
None of you know any of this shit. Shut up and have fun. XD
In the books chief couldn’t sit because his armor didn’t fit in the seat............
The Mass Effect one makes a lot of sense. I thought it was weird how even before that kid died and became a guilt ghost he acted pretty ominous, hiding in a vent, interacting with no one and saying "you can't help me" like he was PLANNING to die tragically. He was shifty from the start.
Not to mention that shepard spend a ton of time around an active reaper indoctrination weapon in the arrival dlc, that the description of oily shadows fit to his dreams, that nothing after harbingers blast makes any sense, harbinger wouldn't just fly off, anderson wouldn't be able to go into the stream before you, the crucible itself taking parts from other ships, anderson getting shot, yet somehow shepard has the wound and so on. I really wonder what was going on, maybe bioware had a bigger ending in place and EA was all like "no we need sequelfooder". This could have gone down as one of the best metagames ever in gaming history, they set the stage, willing or unwillingly, then they had this shitstorm on their hands and a fan theory allready fitting all loose ends together and all they would have needed to do is say "congratulations guys you figured it out, it was all a test", giving them time to cobble together a better ending and some endbossfight with harbinger and a more satisfying end, but nope..we will show the mass relays exploding, even if that means that they should whipe out everything that is in the starcluster and either strand or kill everyone in the sol starsystem, which, depending on your gatherings, is basicly everyone anyway.
@@Nikagor it was debunked by the devs themselves a while ago
Plus Anderson ,who was worth Shepard in the beginning, didn't hear or see the boy at all
With* not worth
@1005rhys If I recall, it was debunked by Casey "I am going to lock myself in a room and write the ending my damn self" Hudson who doesn't seem like the type of person to accept a fan theory. Drew Karpyshyn is who you should be asking who was the head writer for 1 and 2, and he admits that is an ending they thought of and did begin to drop hints for.
Fun Fact: In a patch for Bioshock 1 released at the same time as Bioshock Infinite you can actually hear Songbird's death cry when you first enter Fort Frolic implying that the Rapture you teleport to briefly in infinite is the same Rapture from Bioshock 1.
Brandon Welsh God I hope so, it would add some much needed continuity.
Brandon Welsh link?
Brandon Welsh, you can hear Songbird in Bioshock 2 also. Which either means that A: It is a sound effect that they used for Songbird that happened to be in the first two games. Or, if you like to enjoy life, that B: An alternate universe Booker and Elizabeth enter Rapture in Bioshock 2 around the time of the games events, meaning Bioshock 2 occurs in a different universe than the first game. Which explains why 1: Andrew Ryan feels like a different person than the Ryan in the first game. And 2: Why Sophia Lamb, along with several other things, seem to simply not exist in Bioshock. They never existed in that version of Rapture to begin with, which is why you never hear anything about Lamb. Those Raptures share a common timeline, like the timelines that you jump between in Colombia during Infinite, but similarly, the Raptures in the first and second games are different Raptures. That's always been my theory about Bioshock 2, since it never felt like it belonged with either Bioshock or Bioshock Infinite.
Not when you enter Fort Frolic, but when Sander Cohen is making Fitzpatrick play the dynamite-filled piano before he gets blown to smithereens
OD Smith thanks the specifics of that were a bit fuzzy
I think the Rein theory is slightly more popular than 76 being Phara's father.
Panda I also think so.
Sorry to rain on your parade, the lead writer Michael Chu has confirmed it isn't Reinhardt.
+GazzerS That has never stopped fan theories before. They also unconfirmed the 76/Ana theory but it's still a popular theory
Kahnane I suppose that's also true. Doesn't stop it being "fanon" as opposed to canon.
GazzerS Oh then I am sorry.
Regarding Squall... 1: He was impaled on his right side, towards the edge, which would definitely puncture a lung and break a bunch of ribs, but would likely leave his heart intact, which is a good thing. Not necessarily deadly, but the worst thing at that point(aside from the fluid in the lung) would be the shock involved. 2: This universe has cure spells and magical resurrect-people-from-being-dead spells. So yeah. While it WOULD make more sense for the rest of the game to... you know.... not exist(Because let's face it, it goes from being an inter-governmental intrigue plot to being about flying buildings and wibbly wobbly sorcery REAL quick), if we were to use that as a plot device, it would make more sense for the rest of the game to be a bit more of a weird fever dream. Squall is, after all, Alive, but perhaps dreaming the whole mess, or worse, awake and alive, and severely misinterpreting how the world works. Perhaps to the point where he goes and visits his dad and his imagination gets WAY away from him when his dad recounts his life story to him or something.
TacComControl I actually always liked the way the story started kinda grounded (but still all magicky and sci-fi) on the first disc, then introduced more magic and weirdness in disc 2, and by the end of disc 3 we've got secret empires, monsters from the moon, time traveling witches possessing each other, and, of course, time compression. It feels like the world was full of this stuff from the beginning, you just hadn't been exposed to it yet. Also, the Squall is living out his "final fantasies" thing makes very little sense, as almost nothing that happens after disc one (and including disc one, tbh) is anything we are given a hint that Squall wants. Except maybe Rinoa. The only real "want" we are given is that he wants to know his family or whatever from that flashback, and even though he does eventually meet his dad, it's never outright stated that they are actually related, nor is their a heartfelt reunion or anything. They just meet and work together to stop the sorceress. The whole thing is a square peg with the corners rounded from being smashed so hard into a round hole. But good job, supporters-of-this-theory, you made another weak "protagonist is dead" theory. We're all so proud.
@@xdecatron2985 Also doesn't help that if memory recalls the writer debunked the theory flat out saying that wasn't anywhere near what was going on. He did find the theory fascinating though.
5:20 I mean seeing as according to this theory Chell is a reminder of the fact that Cave Johnson took *everything* from her, I could see her deciding to take out her feelings about cave on her daughter after a couple of years to stew on it.
My theory is that Mike is actually the scientist trying to conquer the world, and Jane is actually the android.
What does that make Andy? Maybe Andy is a hallucination of Jane brought on by a bug her code intentionally put there by Luke and Ellen, with the intent to push Jane into betraying Mike. This would make sense as we all know that Luke and Ellen are really government agents.
and their sole purpose is too brainwash the gamers into buying the games from GameKoRp
Athens Bailey I've been convinced she was a robot ever since she let that "Prime Directive" thing slip in the astronaut episode.
TheRedHoody I thought she was from the United Federation of Planets, here to observe mankind.
John Vuojolainen We definitely need to put our brains together on this... I've got a plan. I'll get the magnets and you get the orca whale. Jane's malevolence shall be no more.
Andy about your Bioshock theory everybody knows Elizabeth is made from ten dogs in a dress how could you make that mistake?
Pffft. Ten dogs indeed. In fact it's nine dogs, two cats and chimpanzee. I thought everyone knew that.
Varin Thaneseeker 4 dogs 2 cats 1 ape 2 dolphins and the remains of harambe
Guys, everyone in this thread is correct. It just depends on what angle you're veiwing her from really.... For instance from the Doctors perspective she's a blue police box in a dress. From mine she's Omnitraxis in a dress.... I imagine from Dippers perspective she's a giant floating Baby....
Considering all of the time travel nonsense, anything is possible.
Plasma Octopus no sir, not time travel, but alternate realities and time-frames! there are a infinite amount of realities thay exist, example, you might not have been born in one, but in another, you might have created the universe in whitch you would create an exact replica realm of halo.
I want Dustin Echoes to be a thing.
Proffesional idiot There's a rather old fanfiction called "The Secret Story of Dustin Echoes" by author and Lego MOC builder Saber-Scorpion which can be found on his website. I believe there's also a marine named Dustin Echoes in Halo 5 as an Easter egg.
Me too
He could form a crossover super team with Marauder Shields (who has his own comic now)
Lul! I get it cuz it's a play on words! Hahahahahaha lulz! Gagagagaga
Or it could be 2 seperate people, Dust & Echoes.
Oh my God guys! You have ruined Halo forever for me... Dustin Echoes?! God damn! I laughed so hard at that. After all these years of playing that game over and over and over again, I never once thought of it like that.
R'mur yea but in the halo novel first strike we learn that there were actually 4 living humans who escaped halo with the Chief and one clinically dead spartan (Linda-058) who was in cryogenic suspension floating in space around the ring while the events of the game occurred.
Linda was latter revived and brought back to life by Dr Halsey which is why she is in halo 5. But to truely to get the whole picture, read the novels and graphic novels. Dam good stories that connect the dots of all the games and provide so much enjoyable CANONICAL lore on the Halo series as a whole
accept for early books retcon because bungie ignored some parts of the book which 343i has try and has done a decent job to fix but some of it just cant be without time jumping or something. which would make Halo stupid.
Or maybe a reentry hard landing would kill a scrub without a mjolnir suit?
Nope, Dustin Echos is canon now.
Jane don't lie, it clearly says on the bottom 'by Jane'
Yeah, no need to be embarassed. Embrace your lack of artistic skill and add it to the list of reasons why you should conquer the world ;)
Yeah, we all know that it's physically impossible to write someone else's name, so it has to be you Jane.
The Mass Effect 3 indoctrination theory was the first thing that popped into my head when I played the game. i spent the bulk of 3 games with one goal in mind: destroy the reapers. Now that I'm mere seconds away from accomplishing that task, suddenly the Reapers have a happy ending for me? Hell no, I'm not trusting a hasty happy ending with Bioware, the same developer who made mind-controlling desire demons in the Dragon Age series.
Professor Utonium The only thing that made me want to choose a different ending was the fact that destroying the reapers essentially killed off EDI, the Geth (which my Shepard made peace with them and the Quarians), and all other Synthetic life. It just sort of felt off to me. Saving the Geth race only to kill them off later after they helped you. Not only that, but they're helping the Quarians get the technology to eventually live without their suits. And killing them off just sort of crushes that reality. And with EDI, I just feel too bad for Joker. All the endings suck in their own way lol
I killed them all and EDI survived cause Joker did his thing. (guy is so stubborn he even stops others from dying) They landed on the planet and EDI walked out with him. Was happy to see she made it.
Well, if you listen to the Catalyst (Hologram Kid). it explains that. 'My Solution won't work anymore'. It gives you the options, since, if you don't do anything, the next cycle will get there anyway. Since Liara sent out the black boxes. So, it decides to allows Shepard to choose the future of the universe. And there isn't really any 'Happy Ending'. You can destroy the Reapers, along with All other synthetic Life, and yourself. You can add your energy to the catalyst, and transform all organic life, and die. Or take control of the reapers, and 'die'. But, the AI kid believes that. if you destroy them, eventually someone will create another version of him, and it will all just begin again. And if you control them, then eventually you will come to the same conclusion it did. And, it also believes the Synthesis is inevitable, so, in reality, it doesn't care what you choose, since it believes that eventually Synthesis will happen. The Indoctrination Theory has been debunked as well.
Indoctrination theory isn't possible. In the Mass Effect Novels (Specifically Retribution), we follow a man named Grayson Hunt as Cerberus runs experiments on Reaper technology on him. He escapes, and is indoctrinated. We see the entire process of indoctrination through his eyes, showing that he is fully aware of what is happening, he knows he is indoctrinated and is powerless to stop it as the Reapers slowly take over his mind. Makes the whole thing all the more horrifying when you stop and realize that every inoctrinated person or creature you killed knew what they were doing and couldn't stop it.
Vpirate How can all the Indoctrinated know about it when you literally have to convince Saren he's indoctrinated as Shepard in ME1?
7:46 censorship fail.
Ffs XD,
r/CensorFails on Reddit
EyeAr WeeTawTed don’t use a subreddit outside of reddit
@Real Human Bean Doesn't make sense, the comment
Brain mapping erased much of GlaDOS' memories/emotions while boosting her thought processes/scientific knowledge. She didn't remember being Caroline until she heard her voice and pieced it together She may not remember Chell is her daughter at all. In the perpetual testing initiative one of the universes they visit had cave Johnson in the AI core and he was driven insane by the process of amassing so much knowledge so quickly, and was going to kill everyone just like GlaDOS did.
Personal fan theory of mine is that Chell became deaf during testing some time before the first portal game. Since she never meets anyone with a mouth, she never realizes she is being spoken to. The _player_ hears what is going on, but it is all lost on Chell. As a result, she has not idea what is going on most of the time. Try playing through the portal games with this in mind, it gets so much funnier!
That is actually how I played the first portal game originally. I accidentally turned off audio and subtitles.
lol, whoops.
another major theory ie that chell is GLaDOS,s original body after he consciousness was rip out to turn her into an AI that's why chell doesn't know anything
That sounds funny but she also replies (sort of, more shows recognition of what he says) to wheatley at the beginning of portal 2, jumping instead of saying apple
Except we see portraits of caroline and cave, Chell RESEMBLES caroline, but they CERTAINLY arent the same person
All journalists are secretly Reapers, so you can never be too careful in Mass Effect.
Top comment.
Or is it even more insidious: all Reapers are secretly journalists?
That's why i always punched that female reporter in the Citadel.
I misread that as "into" and it got a whole lot funnier
Oh god, that'd be a laugh.
There is a lot of research into the Mass Effect 3 theory on KZhead and you'll find that the theory doesn't pan out throughout the whole game series. However, during an interview, the creators admitted they toyed with the idea of Shepard being indoctrinated and I think some of that got left in the game.
Have you all heard about the theory of how Batman may have caused Harley Quinn to have a miscarriage in Batman Arkham City? Like why else would there suddenly be positive pregnancy tests and her singing at the end credits?
You mean negative pregnancy tests?
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The negative ones show up in Harley's Revenge and I believe they are all found in a crib. The positive one is found before you beat the shit out of her.
@@madquinn13 you never beat her in arkham city....
@@Lubble- actually first thing you do when she turns up in City is throw her to the floor in the Church.
Fan theory: Mike and Jane are actually siblings, and Andy is an android (because obviously), created by their father to protect them. Who is their father, you ask? Simple... Luke. Luke is actually from the distant past, but because he had to travel into the future to be here, he had to create the robot to protect his children when he could not. Ellen is, of course, a red herring.
poor Ellen
mabye so but how do you know she didn't cheat oooh plot twist
Cai Holroyd Why does everyone pick on Ellen?
wouldn't Luke be from the future originally? you know with the whole robot building thing, also Ellen could be the mother
Cai Holroyd nah, Ellen is their pet cat
But that's just a theory.... A GAME THEORY!!!!
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The 8th theory is that Sans is Ness. Tbh, I don't believe it's true, but Sans might be a really cool tribute to Earthbound, the obvious inspiration to Undertale.
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Glados was turned into a machine and went on to revenge by making all the staff into companion cubes. Trapped in useless cubes, the staff become helpless subjects which is why Glados also uses them in her experiments with the player. This is well illustrated when she forced the player to incinerate one of the cubes. I have wondered if there is a yet discovered way to hear the companion cubes speaking.
i remmeber seeing a video of a companion cube talking, but i don't remember if it was fan made or unused content
@@pacifistminigun3987 there have likely been data dives into the games by now, but it wouldn’t be the first secret a data dive couldn’t unlock.
Companion cubes having people/dead bodies stuffed inside is just a fan theory. It's basically a glorified creepypasta.
Indoctrination Theory is legitness. My favorite fan theory of all-time (and personal head canon).
Game theory classic
People think Game Theory came up with that? It was being discussed on BSN literally the day ME3 was released and the first players ran through the game at top speed to see what happens.
@@cieloclaudetterivamonte1167 yea right, game theory just stole it.
Funny, it's one of my most hated theories, along with Link is Dead. Goodbye.
@@zegreatpumpkinani9161 Also one of the more accepted and well-proven, but I can see you've already left.
I feel like it makes more sense that master chief's half ton armor + the weight of all the marines exceeded the safe carrying weight of the escape pod and caused it to crash harder than it usually would and killed everyone but the heavily armored master chief who got up and walked it off, In the past masterchief has has successfully free fallen from space only being unconscious when he hit the surface, the same is inferred at the start of the mission, that masterchief was unconscious from that impact as well.
My favorita fan theory is that in Dragon Age Inquisition, when you're picking whether to either leave Hawke or the warden (be it Alistair, Stroud, or Loghain) in the fade, that it should be Hawke that stays BECAUSE in DA2 Flemeth says to Hawke, " We stand upon the precipice of change. The world fears the inevitable plummet into the abyss. Watch for that moment… and when it comes, do not hesitate to leap. It is only when you fall that you learn whether you fly." Meaning that the fade is the abyss and he needs to "jump." Which also leads me to believe that Hawke will be ok. Also, the quest this takes place during is literally called "Here lies the Abyss."
Oh shit I never put those two together, that makes me feel better for saving alistair
My favorite theory is that my dad will come back one day.
Adloquium Dubious keep theorising, keep theorising
Dude is that your dad that come to our store? He is a Tall Raichu Going to buy milk but was kidnap by Clefairies
For the song bird theory, I think it makes sense because, a big thing in Bioshock Infinite, is religious themes, and if Booker was songbird, that would mean that we have three Bookers, representing the holy trinity, the father (Comstock), the Son(The Player Booker), and the Holy Spirit(Song Bird) and usually the Holy Spirit is represented by a dove A.K.A Song Bird.
...Ana doesn't sound flirty with Soldier 76 at all. Now with Reinhardt, shes definitly flirting. And mind you, despite the fact that I think Reinhardt is infinitly more likely to be Pharah's dad, I still don't think thats true since Pharah know who her father is. Its a mistery to us but not to her. So if her father was anyone in Overwatch, don't you think she'd have some interaction with him? And beside, Ana raised Pharah alone, neither Soldier 76 or Reinhardt strike me as guys who would never be around when their kid grow up. I think her dad is dead, simple as that.
Good points. Also possible is that her dad hasn't joined the game yet. He might be a future hero, or if it was Morrison or Reyes, they are basically new people now. Soldier and Reaper are not referred to by their own names by anyone except Mercy (as far as I recall) So if it is actually Soldier, her dad was (Morrison) and Morrison is considered KIA.
Hate to burst the bubble but we've already seen Pharah's father in the "controversial" Tracer comic.
And where did it say that person was her father? Nowhere.
Who else could it be? The overwatch crew have stated that it's not a boyfriend, as well as the fact they are in Canada, of which her Thunderbird skin indicates she most likely has Canadian native heritage.
Aleksandra Zaryanova I think that man is her father as well, but all the evidence you mentioned is circumstantial and is not proof that this is cannon. He may just be a friend from work.
What if 76 is everyone's father? (Gasp!) Maybe that's why we're all soldiers now!
What if Pharah doesn't actually shoot rockets, but fishy sticks?
Mind Blown.
Or what if the jump boost for pharah is just for show and her boots are just futuristic moon shoes?
Now that's what really takes Roadhog's cake!
How can we be soldiers if we're brothers and sisters in binds, horse thief?
What about the epic theory that Doom guy is actually Link far far in the future. There's a surprising amount of evidence for (and unfortunately against) it, but boy would I love if it was true?
Soldier 76 has a line where he says: "I'm not your father" ... nuff said
Plus now 76 is considered gay lmao
76 is gay
@@chaysestringer1468 Y'all know that gay people can still have kids, right?
@@strixt Adoption, test tube babies, surrogate fathers, or simply turning from straight to gay are all valid ways he could indeed have a child.
@@strixt uhhh... a test tube baby born to a surrogate mother is still the biological child of whichever man provided the sperm. Nowadays they can even make babies that are the biological children of both men in a gay couple through gene splicing. However, all of that is irrelevant for the current discussion because the theory was always wrong. There is a picture that has been out for literally ages showing Pharah's dad (we just don't have his name), and it's definitely not Soldier 76. Maybe his name will be a plot point later on, maybe he'll be a hero later on, or maybe he's just not that interesting. Also, Pharah does not look like she could be Soldier's daughter: he's pretty light skinned, Ana is pretty dark-skinned. One would expect their child to have a skin tone intermediate between theirs: but Pharah has the same skin color as Ana.
Chell being GLaDOS' daughter is canon, isn't it? thats why she sings to Chell when shes leaving, isn't it? very sad, if you read the lyrics
Garet Boston it's not confirmed. It's just a major fan theory.
Garet Boston it's not confirmed. It's just a major fan theory.
Garet Boston it's not confirmed. It's just a major fan theory.
i feel like its more of an unspoken truth, and the way they kind of acknowledge it in game makes me feel like it's a little more then a fan theory
It could just be GLaDOS remarking on how Chell has been shaped by what she experienced at GLaDOS' metaphorical hands (which, given how much of a egocentric megalomaniac GLaDOS is, wouldn't be surprising), and not necessarily insinuating a familial relationship. As such, it isn't canon.
wtf 5 views? Has Jane tele-located me to a universe where I'm actually quick to watch these videos? Jane - I appreciate your unwavering desire to mess around with the universe.
Dean Brown I feel exactly the same
nar i think the views just have not caught up yet haha
Dean Brown wtf 8.1 views actually that's a lot u just couldent wait could you
***** fanception
I haven't watched this channel in ages and I'm so glad I'm watching them gain, they're hilarious
Dustin echos reminded me of one Star Wars comic with some nerd kid named “Manny Bothans” who died getting the information of the second Death Star. In the movie they said “Many bothhans”
Do: 7 times guns don't work that way guys. Some examples: - A sniper round kills someone with one shot, but takes 3 to break a window. - It doesn't matter what you wear, you will die with two shots from a 12 gauge. - Bullets will just disappear after a certain range. - a .44 magnum revolver does more damage than a .50AE Desert Eagle
A True Slav Any torgue or therodore(pardon my spelling, i could never say let alone say it) gun from Borderlands
zakeslayer ah..the torgue and tediore guns from bl2 on...the gyro rockets are plausible. The tediore reload/throw bit does creep into the weird realm of borderlands semi-canon with the whole "digistruct technology".
You mean Tediore
A True Slav how about when a double barreled shotgun does three times the damage of a pump action even though they're both using the same ammunition?
Another one bullets don't drop, when gun's don't jam, when fully-automatic rifles don't overheat.
Theory: The mushroom kingdom is actually purgatory, and Mario & Luigi died while working on some very shoddy plumbing, as seen in the first episode of the super Mario Brothers Super Show. Bowser represents Satan (horns, fire) and Peach is the Virgin Mary (which is why she makes cake for Mario instead of having sex with him). Also, Toad is Jesus or something, I don't know, Peach pulls him out of nowhere in Super Smash Bros, that has to mean something, look, I just made this shit up, leave me alone. Discuss.
Ok... what's undodog?
The Squall is dead theory got debunked a long time ago. Also, he was stabbed through the shoulder which is totally survivable.
Can you give more info? I totally tought it was true tbh
Emmm arteries , size of the pillar puncturing a lung , shock of hypothermia of the ice in the blood stream drastically lowering the bodies tempature throwing off homeostasis , fall damage, mass internal bleeding. Not saying your not wrong but an injury like that isn't easily survivable. But Phoenix down BITCHES
I was more a fan of the Squall Coma theory instead, where the opening fight FMV with Seifer didn't result in just a scar, but in a full-blown head trauma, likely from falling face-first into a hard-ass stone battlefield. From there, it's all Squall hallucinating as he recovers. While far-fetched, I realized it was a lot more possible after I had a hospital visit where they used Ketamine as an anesthetic instead of the usual stuff, and I wound up having some fucked up and lucid hallucinations or dreams or something... Then spent what felt like hours retching as I came down... But most likely it's just that Squall was healed. Like, Rinoa is right there after he gets the cold shoulder, and she's kinda set up as the healer archetype... Combined with her... later plot points, her being able to stabilize him seems likely. That and Cure spells don't seem to leave scars to begin with, else there'd be more scars on SeeDs given the nature of their work and training.
@@JPDaman1000 I feel like the only part of that which the average FF party wouldn't possibly face in an average battle is the fall damage. Just give Squall a few potions and a phoenix down if needed, he'll be fine.
I decided to actually try bacon bits in a milkshake. I threw up. Thanks Obama.
He isn't called Ovommit for nothing.
I'd still protect 11 cats in a dress...
Next bioshock , rescue 11 cats
@@goldenegg8of100 and find dresses for those cats to wear.
I always thought the Rockstar one was a genuine, accepted part of the canon, a little like all Tarantino movies being set in the same universe. I didn't even think of the times when New York and LA were mentioned. Maybe RDR and LA Noire is set in one, and GTA, Bully and Manhunt in another?
Actually all Tarantino films fall into TWO universes. A "real" universe (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, etc.) and the "movie within the movie" universe.(Kill Bill)
I think that they can be the same one, just with a simple explanation. Goes like this: sometime in the 70s, both cities were renamed. Reason? Reaction to disaster. If we can accept that the Rockstar games had a break from our known reality like Tarantino movies, then the break would also explain some things, like the hyper-violent people in the cities sporting new names. For New York, the 70s had a major blackout, the Zodiac killer running amok, and race relations at feverish tension. Way I see it, all it would have taken is one riot to get DRASTICALLY out of control (and for the Rockstar universe, that's no stretch of the imagination), and New York would have become a war zone. City goes on lockdown, but that just ratchets up the tension further, and the rioting just escalates until the city resembles a lawless state. Eventually, the violence calmed down, and City Hall pushed the name change in order to help the city lose its recently-made reputation by starting fresh. As for LA, I could see it based more of a "natural disaster" flavor. A massive earthquake or wildfire (or maybe both) decimates the city, cutting it off from outside help. Emergency services are pressed past the breaking point trying to keep things under control, and the local neighborhood street gangs, smelling blood in the water, start trying to carve out a bigger piece of territory. Once again, looting and rioting break out, and the city becomes a collection of paranoid survivor-types with nothing to lose. The people who can flee the city, leaving only the jackals to tear each other to pieces. When it finally calms down, once again, City Hall pushes for a new name. It makes sense to me, as it would also explain why, in both these cities, the cops are either mostly inept (due to their fear of dying in the line of duty for no reason) or militant, take-no-shit hardasses who will draw down on the first civilian who twitches funny at them. That's what they've grown accustomed to, and what they've come to expect. It also explains why crime, from white-collar sleaze to street-level thuggery, seem to run rampant. The criminals had time and opportunity to entrench themselves so deep that they've almost become part of the institution themselves. Remove all the criminals, and the cities would fall apart. Anyway, just a thought.
I mean, when it comes to the whole Bioshock deal, it's less a "death by drowning" thing so much as a "murdered by drowning" thing.... Songbird was murdered by Elizabeth, Comstock was murdered by DeWitt (Suicide!?!?), DeWitt is murdered by a group of Elizabeth's... Maybe Elizabeth was (one of) the bad guy all along?
I always thought it was just the added weight of a half-tonne Spartan increasing the terminal velocity of the escape pod that caused extra force on the marines which killed them. Also, you forgot Sgt. Johnson.....he survived the first Halo. I don't think we know how, though, "it's classified."
Sgt Johnson also survived the events of Halo
and to this day we have no idea how he managed to do that
Exile Studios he's immortal unless he's touched by a guilty spark
hey think about this Johnson's death was a warning for what 343 would eventual do to the halo series...kill it
He has a rare genetic deformity which the flood spore couldn't adapt to. MC kept it secret so ONI wouldn't cut him up to get a vaccine. - 1 of the Halo novels (sorry can't remember)
Virtua- SEAN Actually, it was part of the procedures he went through to become a Spartan-I. Johnson was part of the original Spartan program, called Project ORION. ONI knew about the Flood immunity it granted, but the negative side effects were considerable and mass producing the immunity and the treatment for the the side effects would be nearly impossible.
Master Chief has tiny hands...
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Steve Jobs #fucktheleftists
You know what they say about tiny hand... One millimeter peener
The Indoctrination Theory would have been the most mind-blowing ending of all time. Bioware should have just said that it was canon all along after the theory surfaced. They really missed out on a great opportunity.
TIT is extremely biased as it is just a way to express butthu... disagreement with the canonical ending sequence, dude. It's not mind-blowing, it's created just to be there.
@@mihan2d As it goes, It's more compelling than the canonical ending
@@ryanalving3785 Don't really see it more compelling. The Destruction with surviving Shep (which is pretty much of canon of the canon LOL), counting the Extended Cut, if you think of it, is pretty solid purely storywise. Sure it ALMOST doesn't consider your choices and stuff but that's more gameplaywise. I personally even like this deterministic approach: on the scale of the entire galaxy almost falling to pieces your personal choices along the way are irrelevant, it doesn't matter much what led you to that point, it's what you decide in the most crucial moment of your life what really defines your impact on the galaxy.
@@mihan2d Perhaps, I just find an almost Meta-Story where you get an inside view of the indoctrination process and have to fight it without really knowing what you're doing quite compelling. It just seems more satisfying than "all your choices leading up to this didn't matter; now red, blue, or green." It seems more fun to me they got into the players head, started manipulating you, and when you caught a bullet on the surface Indoctrination flew into overdrive; only ceasing if you make the right choice. But perhaps that's just me.
I'd actually buy the ME3 one. Synthesis, really? That was what indoctrinated Saren's whole deal was! Like, the whole point of the first Mass Effect was how that was an awful idea. For me, the choice is easy: Destory those MFers!
FINALLY someone with some fucking common sense! I don't know why they call it that, it's anything but common.
For me The good ending is the KICK THE BABY ending because let not forget that the BABY is The AI who controls the Reapers
I feel like song bird was misunderstood I mean what if this whole time he just wanted a hug
InsertChannel NameHere lol same
Since we are on the topic of father-daughter relationships, what about the theory that Krieg (Conductor of the Poop Train), was actually Tiny Tina's father, in Borderlands 2? There were quite a number of clues throughout the game/DLCs (recordings found in Wildlife Exploitation Preserve; Krieg's reply to Moxxi when asked about his loved ones, in the Wedding Day Massacre DLC; a Krieg character skin labelled 'Where Are You Grace' (Grace being Tina's mum), just to name a few). Yeah, I know that the creators actually said that Krieg isn't Tiny Tina's father, but damn, that would certainly have been a hell of an awesome backstory.
Tiny Tina's introduction has her killing the bandit that murdered both her parents, and he was kinda scrawny. Doubt he could've taken krieg
some say Dustin Ekos is really thelegend27
That's a dead meme
Ethan Krisanski you're dead meat
The meme was cool though
@@KeishinB237 And you're about to be a dead meme
Mass effect 3, indoctrination theory. That theory is my mind Canon for the series.
It's headcanon
Yeah, the max difficulty renegade ending of ME3 had breath return to Shepard's chest lying in rubble in the ruins of London, which really fuelled the fires of the indoctrination theory. I still never understood how Anderson basically teleports ahead of you when stuff gets weird at the end...
Um, you can get that ending with Shep surviving if your have max ems. And the devs themselves said the theory was not true a few years ago. My theory is that the kid was real, but shep keeps seeing the kid in the dreams as Shep has PTSD.
The reason is that the ending was rushed. something like 4 months before ME3 came out, the full ending leaked and was seen by a few thousand people (myself included) before bioware stamped it out. While Bioware's official stance is that they only altered the ending slightly, anyone who actually saw it can tell you confidently that that's a crock of shit. From the moment Harbinger lands, EVERYTHING is changed. Everything after Harbinger lands was swiftly cobbled together at the figurative 11th hour before launching the game.
eleven cats in a dress? that's a very specific number, Andy. Any reason for that?
It's probably symbolic or something
Everyone knows you can't fit 12 cats in a dress.
You can't fit any number of cats in a dress. Trust me, I tried.
I can fit two cats in a dress. But any more and they start getting out. Because I can only hold two cats at once.
It's like a football team.
Overwatch theory huh What about Team Fortress 2 Spy is scout's dad
That's pretty much canon if you count your mother's boyfriend as your dad
He is confirmed to be the father
Come on! Scout’s dad is totally Tom Jones!
Cool theories. As for the ME theory I always believed that. That is why the the reapers appear to you as the child in the end. Bioware wanted the player to feel like your choices never mattered because you were indoctrinated all along. They denied this but it's better than their shit ending.
It's been confirmed that Pharah knows who her father is, so it rules out Reinhardt and Soldier being her father. It's much more likely the guy in the christmas comic she is sitting with.
In Rockstars games being in the same universe makes sense like 1. Michael likes watching old crime classics which LA Noire could be one 2. Red Dead Redemption is a book 3. Manhunt could be in the town as stated 4. Bully's Bullworth High is a school in the universe as well
this makes most sense to me
Master Chiefs armor can lock for high-speed impacts. It does it at the start of Halo 3, and so he probably just did it for the pod landing too. The marines died just from a bad crash landing, when chief could have honestly made it without the pod by just jumping out of the ship at the start.
Well, now the 76 theory's wrong lol
GAEEEEEEE
You know that gay folk can still reproduce, right?
@@catinasuitcase uuhh, what? How? 2 gays cannot. There's artificial insemination, but naturally? No
funny how overwatch officially said yeah but then retracted the statement to put in [lgbtq+ insert] into game to ponder to other audiences who needs to be represented
Ugh... it was wrong from the beginning, no? IIRC there was photo with Ana and someone else, who is Pharah's father
What if those 11 cats are more alternate versions of Booker?
Does anyone else recognize that the voice actor of Cave Johnson is also Stanford Pines?
He's also J. Jonah Jameson from the Spider Man movies. And The Closer's boss. And the spokesman for Farmers Insurance. And a psychopathic music teacher in the critically acclaimed movie Whiplash ... But I'll always remember ol' JK Simmons best as Garth Pancake from the Coens's remake of The Ladykillers ;)
Organized Enigma My first experience of J.K. Simmons was Vern Schillinger in Oz, but I will always think of him as J. Jonah Jameson.
He was PERFECT as JJJ. Too bad he won't be cast as him again.
Is that real thought
OXbox theory: Jane has brought in Luke and Ellen to trial them as replacements for Mike and Andy, because Mike and Andy are a few years old now and their robotic augments are starting to wear out
The book Jack Marston is reading is about Red, from Red Dead Revolver.
I want to see more of Andy's fan art. Does he have a Tumblr or DeviantArt?
You'd be looking for Jane's account. It says 'by Jane' at the bottom.
MetricCaboose1 Someone needs to develop this theory
Get with the times ox, Bastion memes died a couple months after release, when everybody understood how weak he actually is (was. The new Bastion update is great)
TheDorianTube he just got buffed and is dominating the game right now so it's plenty relevant to talk about.
shadow105720 seriously what was blizzard thinking?
They decreased his DPS, his Ironshield (or whatever its called) and he can't get critical hits in sentry mode. How was he buffed in general?
He can now survive SHITTON of damage because of 'iron claud'(-35%damage taken in sentry and tang config). While nanoboosted he can't be killed even by phara or D'va's ult because it stacks and he getting -85% damage.
But they lowered it in ptr to 20%.
The portal theory has been confirmed on steam in the find a co-op partner discussion they give levels of expertise and one of them is Chell Johnson
I like the Portal theories where Caroline (and by extension GLaDOS) is Chell's mother and Cave Johnson might be Chell's dad, and what might make it more interesting is the fan theory that Caroline was a Black Mesa plant in Aperture who sabotaged all of Cave Johnson's projects and even engineered his death. Things like Caroline quickly changing the subject whenever Cave mentions Black Mesa point to that, and at one point the Black Mesa logo appears on one of the monitors in Portal (I think). There's also the theory that Caroline's personality within GLaDOS is the real enemy trying to kill Chell. At the end of Portal 2 when Caroline is deleted, GLaDOS stops trying to kill Chell and promptly lets her go.
I know this is an old comment, but I wanted to say thanks for giving me a new way to look at that ending cutscene, it's a really cool theory
@@mrcephalopod Thanks man, I'm glad you liked it.
Wait, dust AND echoes, SO TWO PEOPLE MADE IT OUT OF THE EXPLOSION!!!
Damn it now I want bacon bits in my milkshake
mindless assology may i say that i had once a chocolate sundae with bacon. it was surprisingly not gross and pretty tasty. go for the milkshake with bacon.
I'm a veggie but now I'm craving bacon.
mindless assology it's good mahn
peanut butter and bacon milkshakes are nearly as good as chocolate and jalapeno
mindless assology I just want a milk shake... not had one in years...
the thing with shepard is that, it's not only him fighting the effect of indoctrination, its also an effect from PTSD.
For the mass effect theory the reason he's not indoctrinated is the fact that shepherd is quick to leave the presents of reaper technology and killing a reaper gets rid of the process
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I can't be alone on this, but it really pleases me hearing Jane talk...
Rinoa is ultimecia theroy is FAR more credible imo
Squall is dead is the most over rated and nonsense theory I think I’ve ever read...it just a string of nonclemature because someone was too stupid to grasp the fair tame storyline (compared to the rest of the series) of 8.
Actually, I think that GladOs and Cabe are Chell's parents. That's why GladOs is always so sure Chell is adopted.
What about MGS3 being a training mission for Old Snake in MGS4 so he can finally take down Ocelot, like Big Boss did in the Virtuous mission.
There is a theory that NASA recruited Jane to speed up their quest for galaxy domination and the Jane that came back is just a LMD. #MindBlown
That's not even a theory that's just a fact really.
What if 76 is the last surviving employee of VaultTech???
I've had a long-standing fan theory that Far Cry: Primal is secretly a prequel to the Assassin's Creed series. There have already been hints toward Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, and Watch Dogs being set in the same universe so this one is totally plausible. Adding to that is the fact that Far Cry: Primal also uses a lot of the same mechanics as Assassin's Creed. Basically, one of the main antagonists in the game is a tribe called the Izila which is depicted as a cruel society that values domination and control over others, and the need to force other tribes to submit to their authority. Sound familiar? My theory is that the Izila are secretly precursors to the Cult of Kosmos and Order of the Ancients, which themselves are precursors to the Templar Order. I've also speculated that Urki accidentally invented the "leap of faith" maneuver that is popular among Assassins when he tried to fly like a bird.
The Pharah's father theories has been disproven by the comics.
There's also a new spray with Pharah's father that is none of the overwatch heroes.
Stairwayto711 _ That spray isn't pharaohs dad
First Name Last Name. It is. It has been confirmed
Sure, he may seem like the father, but war is long and sometimes you get lonely. Totally just kidding, or am I?
Also by interactions with Ana
or could Song Bird be the Sniper of TF2's pet owl in armor?
about pharah: in the christmas comics there was a slide with her having dinner with some man who has been confirmed to not be a romantic interest. People have speculated that he is her real dad and is of native canadian origin, explaining her thunderbird skin
OMFG now I want all my characters to be named Dustin Echoes.
I remember Jane coming up with that Bioshock theory.
My theory: That Ubisoft is run by the real assassin order so people look favorably towards the assassins and frown upon the templars who are the actual good guys. Yes this is more of a real life conspiracy theory and no I haven't looked into whether other people have speculated about this but I still think its a fun theory
Callum Robinson what if... The assassins order and Templars are actually allying against worst organization?
What about Assassin's creed Rogue then?
I took a look at the placement of Squall's injury, just for extra info: Spear enters approx. 1" away from his right shoulder, same distance below his clavicle. The spear goes straight through his torso, exiting near his spine. I can see the most serious injury here being perforated lung. Does the victim live? Unknown.
I personally theorize (thanks to this video) that Red Dead Redemption might actually be fictional in the rockstar universe. Idk it makes sense to me but I haven't actually played it so idk
sheesh another video about the stupid "squall is dead" theory. the wound wouldnt have been 100% lethal and were talking about a world where you can bring the dead back to life through magic. its not beyond the realm of possible that the GF in his head healed the wound and consumed the memories of the event in the process. it's talked about later how the GF's eat memories in exchange for granting powers. and the ending is more of time reassembling itself after having three seperate timelines collapsed onto each other by ultimacia. ill stick to the "rinoa becomes ultimacia" theory since it actually does hold some grounds for both motive and ability.
The Ice also hit him through the right side of his chest, so it is not like it hit him in the heart. And even if someone wanted to Argue against the GF healing him, it could have even been Edea/Ultimacia that did, or maybe even Seifer. As afterwards they are questioning him about SeeD, so they'd want him alive to do so. As for other characters no bringing it up, I mean could simply be the old script for the game, why add something in that wouldn't add anything to the story line?
Pulse Fel it's Square Enix, every game has a death that can be fixed with magic that everyone forgets they have (OR A PHEONIX DOWN)
The idea is that Phoenix Down lets people recover when they are KO'd. 0HP = KO, not death. That's the party line. I assume characters that use the spell "Death" are just edgelords who want their attacks to sound more lethal than they are.
Also, since when does magic leave permament damage? I mean, you summon shive, she FREZZES all enemies and crushes them into pieces, but nope, they are still in one piece. Behemoth doing Meteor? A normal person would die when a like 3t stone crush thier head, but nope you survive it. Casting Fire 3 on someone? Not leaving a single scratch or turnes thier cloth into dust. Magic cant kill you, sure it brings your HP down, but will never cut your arm off or cause a hole in your chest.
I never really got that... I feel like they'd treat death more like a joke like DBZ-abridged does "on the 3rd one you get a free ice-cream!" lol. In fact if you were living in that world you'd just laugh at your friend when they got shot full of bullets or impaled by a lance with a quip like "git gud" shortly before waiting 3 disks to use a phoenix down cause you didn't need them until just then.
ff8 is the weirdest game I've ever played It's like square said "let's face it, no way we can make this game better than our last, so let's just make it super weird and have the fans try to figure it out what it means"
Villainy WHAT DOES IT MEAAAAAAN
Fun fact: the two games were in production at the same time. Edea meant to be in final fantasy 7 as a sub boss.
Zsolt Lőrinczy wow didn't know that. I'm so used to waiting years for a final fantasy game that I forgot they used to pump out main series titles almost every year back then
It's all timey wimey wibbly wobbly. The game is much easier to understand if you are a Doctor Who fan :)
It feels like it was just yesterday this was uploaded. I love how they still make quality content.
Sgt. Johnson, The Master Chief, Cortana, ODST Corporal Locklear, Warrant Officer Shiela Polaski and ONI Lieutenant Haverson (along with Linda, another Spartan II, who was in a cryopod) all survived the events of the first Halo. Halo: First Strike, written by Eric Nylund, details the events that took place after Halo: Combat evolved & before Halo 2. It's a good read.
When I saw the thumbnail I thought you were going to talk about the one that claims samus aran is actually mother brain.
i really do not think Pharah's dad is in the game right now. If he was, wouldn't they have voice lines mentioning it? the 4 options are: A. her father is dead and will just be lore B. Her dad is a playable hero that has yet to be added C. he will be brought up as alive at a later point, but will remain a side story character. D. it's the man in the reflections comic that Pharah is eating dinner with, which would explain why they clearly went out of their way to hide his face. i personally think it's D
Her dad is roadhog
As to Songbird there are the notes about Big Daddies needing to be genetically connected to the little sisters, and they discuss that in a very hard to find note or recording (forget which) in the Songbird lab.
My personal theory about respawning in tf2: The Heaven/Hell Theory, or The Respawn Theory. It's basically what goes on while you're dead and respawning. Half the mercenaries go to heaven (The Scout, The Soldier, The Heavy and The Engineer), half go to hell (The Demoman, The Medic, The Sniper and The Spy). I'll get to pyro in a bit. The first half go to heaven because they were good, and got a choice: Stay in heaven or go back to earth. They always chose back to earth. The other half went to hell because they sinned, and in some way or other bribed the devil, whether it was giving some eyelander souls (Demo), Extra souls of baboons (medic), throwing the, er, jarate at the devils and hightailing it (sniper), or giving him a deadringered soul (spy). Then they just walk to the path back to earth. The pyro, neither God nor the devil wants. Pyro's not accepted into heaven because pyro burns people to death, but pyro's not accepted into hell because pyro believes it's helping people. Thus, God and the devil agree to put pyro in purgatory, before putting pyro back on earth and postponing his judgement. I believe this is a relatively sound theory backed by both the meetings of God and the devil In the final episode of Mann Co No More.