Nooooooooo! Phil Connors keeps reliving Groundhog Day because he IS the old homeless man. From a far future where he eventually owned several media networks, his success came at a cost of any meaningful relationship. An ailing man with only one day to live, he travels back in time to the impetus of his downward spiral: Feb 2nd of that fateful year. He leaves the same alarm clock that's soaked in chrono particles in the room for his younger self and once he sees himself on the street the loop has begun. The loop continues to play again and again, old Phil dying each night again and again, so that young Phil has a chance to redeem himself to Rita and avoid the solitude of the future. The alarm clock he left for his younger self has enough residual chrono particles to reset the timeline in the events of his deaths. The loop will only end once younger Phil has gained the humility, wisdom, and grown into a person so different from Older Phil, that young Phil no longer sees Rita as a conquest, rather she chooses the new him, a life so different that the two realities become completely decohered and Old Phil doesn't even exist anymore, and the new happy timeline picks up from there.
I'm not sure if Transformers fan-theories are supposed to go here or not, but there doesn't seem to be an active thread for Transformers ones (aside from the headcanon thread, which is a bit different than a theory. A headcanon sort of reinterprets the lore to fit someone's liking, a theory just describes something unexplained that very well could be canon). Here's something interesting I found. Below is a screenshot of a theory I made back in early 2014 about how Transformers get their names. Four years later, something similar would become official canon in the Bumblebee movie. Obviously it isn't an exact match to what I describe (which is probably for the better...the explanation presented in the movie is much less convoluted)...but it certainly echoes my old fan theory. I underlined some important parts in red. Forgive the bad grammar, I probably didn't know what I was doing back in 2014, lol.
Event Horizon, Hellraiser, and Warhammer 40K are all part of the same fiction, just different times in the timeline (Hellraiser first, then Event Horizon, then Warhammer 40K).
Whenever your not playing video games, all the games you purchased are in a world similar to Wreck-it-Ralph. Basically chilling and hanging out with each other. Their all connected to your router and they relax. Regardless of console. Think like a Who Frame Roger Rabbit scenario. It's dumb, but my colorful imagination likes thinking about that.
I've thought this ever since EH came out. My brother and I call it Hellraiser Lite...."Iiiinnn Spaaace!"
OMG, never thought of this....mind blown!!!! KOBAYASHI(Pete Postelwaite) = KEYSER SOZE!!! It makes perfect sense!!!!
My theory is that Doom 3 and Ressurection of Evil, Quake 2-4, Rage, Rage 2, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein and it's sequel Wolfenstein all take place in the same universe. Return to Castle Wolfenstein establishes supernatural powers in the universe, possibly due to demonic presence, Wolfenstein establishes the interest in opening up pathways to the other side for resources as well as establishes the beginnings of the BFG9000: The Leichenfaust 44. The Wolfenstein games have the least impact in the overall universe. Then Doom 3 happens, a research facility investigating terraforming Mars and teleportation discover another dimension and immediately try to plunder it for resources, only to have the whole facility invaded by demons (twice!). The invasion is fended off by one security guard and the whole incident is swept under the rug by the UAC and continue their research. It's important to note that while Doom 4 was not made into a game, it's existence is considered canon by our next title: Rage. In Doom 4, the demons would have invaded Earth and a small band of humans would have banded together to fight back the demons and feasibly banish them for ever. Rage takes place after the proposed events of Doom 4. In Rage, the world was destroyed by some cataclysmic event where the remaining people are just barely starting to rebuild. In Rage, you can find the same security robots from Doom 3 as well as graffiti of the Spider Mastermind in Doom 3's art style, which implies that the Spider Mastermind would have been the final boss of Doom 4 and would have been the one leading the invasion of Earth. Flash forward roughly 100 years or so, humanity has rebuilt Earth after the demon invasion, but there is a new threat from another world: the Strogg. When the Strogg start to invade, the marines fight these horrific cyborgs from Earth and keep the fight going until they beat them back to their own home world. In Quake 2, you can see that the UAC had still been hard at work with their weapon development, having created their new pride and joy: the BFG10k, the shiny and new, beefed up BFG9000 from the Doom series. Quake also features a more advanced method of teleportation than what the UAC had been investigating, possibly a perfected version of the teleporters used by the UAC back in Doom 3's time: a slipgate. The UAC reverse-engineers the better teleporters and allows the marines to take the battle to the Strogg homeworld. Chronologically, the Quake games are the last games in the overarching timeline. Keep in mind that there is an even larger interconnection of games once you dig into the original Doom games and their connection to Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal, but that is a continuity nightmare that has to do with alternate realities ala Wolfenstein: New Order, so it's better that we just leave it as it is. You COULD explain how the original Quake, the OG Doom games, Doom (2016) and Eternal, and the Wolfenstein: New Order games fit in with the alternate timelines, but it gets to be far too fuzzy to try to fit them all together in a satisfying way. That's my contribution to the thread for now, I hope you enjoyed my massive post.
The Simpsons is from Bart's point of view. Everyone is stupid and annoying and got worse because it's how he views the world.
Barnyard never happened. Mrs. Beady is suffering from early onset dementia that causes her to believe in male cows with udders and farm animals partying. It's all a delusion.
Kronika used to have genuinely good intentions behind her efforts to balance Mortal Kombat's light and dark forces. If the realms would ever come back together, whether by conquest or unity, the One Being would be revived and unmake creation itself. She had to keep resetting timelines and trying to prevent one side overtaking the other to ensure it would never come back. But the means to keep the monster at bay became a stagnant corruption that twisted itself into a simple power move to keep herself on top of reality. Timelines and destiny at her fingertips enthralled her with undisputed authority. She slowly devolved into a mad urge to maintain her precious balance, refusing to consider any possible alternative to nullifying the One Being's threat. She wanted control and power all to herself, devolved into cruelty and pettiness. Now the reset of timelines is simple her means of maintaining authority, not seeking a way to truly destroy the One Being. Shinnok and Cetrion are aware of her madness but go to opposite ends to oppose it. Cetrion, virtuous but lacking the steel to challenger her mother, began planting seeds of her godly power into certain bloodlines, waiting for them to blossom into warriors who could overthrow Kronika and find a new way to end the One Being. Shinnok, by contrast, schemes to revive the One Being and let it destroy Kronika and all of creation; at best he will usurp control of the next reality for himself, at worst he will at least 'free' all life from the endless cycle.