Grab your tinfoil hats and prepare to question everything you thought you knew about your favorite animated classics! Join us as we explore the most shocking and bizarre theories lurking beneath the surface of Disney's magical universe. From hidden connections between films to dark interpretations that will change how you see beloved characters forever!
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00:00Shady Oak's retirement. Oh, brother.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most bonkers theories involving Disney properties.
00:10We'll be getting into spoilers for various movies, so consider this your warning.
00:14What's your name?
00:15You... you don't know my name?
00:17No... no, I know your name.
00:21Number 20.
00:22The passengers are cannibals and they don't even know it.
00:25Wall-E.
00:25When it comes down to it, Wall-E is arguably one of Pixar's most important films.
00:30It's a story about two robots falling in love and trying to get Earth back on track along the way.
00:34Name?
00:38Wall... Wall-E.
00:41Wall-E's.
00:43Wall... Wall-E.
00:45Steve.
00:48But what if this warm and fuzzy movie wasn't as wholesome as we thought?
00:53One theory suggests that the passengers aboard the Axiom are fed an extremely unconventional diet.
00:58So what are they eating? Potentially human corpses.
01:01Time for lunch. In a cup!
01:08We never actually see what's in the slop the humans are slurping down.
01:12Plus, we never learn how the ship deals with passengers who have passed on.
01:15Is it all that crazy to think that the dearly departed have been converted into a food supply?
01:20We'll let you decide.
01:22This is called farming.
01:24You kids are gonna grow all kinds of plants.
01:26Vegetable plants, pizza plants!
01:35The man of Snow White's dreams may not be all he's cracked up to be.
01:38One theory suggests that the prince is actually a representation of death.
01:42And that Snow White actually dies when she eats the poisonous apple.
01:46Now, make a wish.
01:48And take a bite.
01:50This would mean the prince's kiss wakes her up so that he can transfer her over to the afterlife.
01:54And when she's saying goodbye to the seven dwarves,
01:57she leaves into the sunset on a white horse that the prince guides.
02:00Goodbye.
02:05Bye, Grumpy.
02:07Goodbye.
02:09This could be interpreted as a biblical allusion to death.
02:13It's a bleak take on this film, but the pieces certainly fall into place nicely.
02:18Who knows? Maybe Snow White and the Grim Reaper will make a very happy couple.
02:21Hello.
02:22Oh!
02:23Did I frighten you?
02:25Wait!
02:26Wait, please!
02:34What if this whole movie was actually a strategic ploy to remove attention from Walt Disney?
02:39Some genuinely believe that Frozen was a scheme made to hide the conspiracy theory
02:44that Walt Disney had his head cryogenically stored.
02:47Is Great Uncle Walt frozen underneath the Pirates of the Caribbean rock?
02:50He is not.
02:51We don't have him in an ice cube tray in the freezer.
02:54No, not frozen.
02:55It's not implausible that the company would want that rumor about their founder to be forgotten.
03:00With a film called Frozen, if people looked up Disney and Frozen on the internet,
03:04they'd be directed to the movie instead.
03:06Well, now they know.
03:10Let it go. Let it go.
03:13However, creating an entire movie just to mess around with some SEO feels a bit far-fetched.
03:19We'll give some credit, though.
03:20This theory does something few crazy theories do,
03:23and that is join forces with another to form one giant ludicrous theory.
03:27It's like some serious theory-ception.
03:39Ever wonder why this world is only run by animals?
03:43If I'm not wrong, the idea of a society populated by fully functioning sentient animals is really cool.
03:48However, that's bound to make you wonder if humans have ever existed in this universe.
03:56One theory suggests that they did, but that things went bad.
04:00Zootopia might actually take place in the far future where all of humanity has gone extinct.
04:05Following this extinction, animals developed consciousness
04:08and eventually formed the world we see in the movie.
04:13Goodness, they really did hire a bunny.
04:15What?
04:16It's possible that humans were never meant to exist in this movie's world,
04:20but if you want to imagine they did, this theory offers a unique way of doing so.
04:25Savage, this isn't the Stone Age, Hopps. Animals don't go, Savage.
04:30I thought so, too, till I saw this.
04:37A troubling storm at the start of this movie might have spelled out doom for our protagonist.
04:43Help me! Please!
04:53A popular theory floats the possibility that Moana died during that one huge thunderstorm.
04:58Despite dying, her spirit still embarks on the journey to find Te Fiti's heart.
05:02We have to find Maui! We have to restore the heart!
05:05When she successfully does this, Te Fiti rewards Moana by resurrecting her.
05:09The possibility of her kicking the bucket early on is definitely a bit grim for a kids' movie.
05:13Well, in the sequel film, she does meet her end, though it happens in the final climax.
05:19Moana. Moana.
05:23Moana, you can't.
05:26Luckily, though, she's saved by her ancestors.
05:28Maybe Disney finally leaned into a conspiracy theory,
05:31but regardless, Moana is one badass wayfinder.
05:39One day I'll know how far I'll go.
05:53Wonderland is a very trippy place.
05:56And ever since this story came out,
05:58fans have gone down the rabbit hole to unearth the deeper meanings about what was going on with Alice.
06:02What a peculiar place to have a party.
06:05You know, Dino, we really shouldn't be doing this.
06:11Many widely believe that Alice's descent into Wonderland is actually a story about taking illicit drugs.
06:16More specifically, that Alice was on one bad LSD trip the entire time.
06:20Think about it. She eats mushrooms and chugs down suspicious-looking potions.
06:24That's gonna raise some red flags.
06:26I'm tired of being only three inches high.
06:28Yai, yai, yai, yai, yai, yai, yai, yai, yai, yai!
06:32She also sees highly questionable oddities and travels across an impossible land.
06:37Suddenly, Alice in Wonderland became an icon for the counterculture.
06:41It's even the basis behind the song White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.
06:44Needless to say, this theory has picked up a lot of steam.
06:54Why would High School Musical be in the same world as The Purge?
06:57Well, that's because High School Musical clearly exists in a world without rules.
07:01What time is it? Summertime. It's our vacation.
07:05What time is it? Party time. That's right, say it loud.
07:09Isn't it legitimately perplexing how the characters can just disrupt their school with reckless abandon?
07:14Or how about the shady happenings down at Lava Springs?
07:17There are basically tons of crimes being committed with no consequences.
07:21That sounds an awful lot like the premise for The Purge, where all crime is legal for a specific period of time.
07:26Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours.
07:33Does an ultra-violent world of anarchy exist outside of the doors of East High?
07:37It's possible!
07:38Look, there are definitely some leaps in logic you'll have to take in order to make this work,
07:42but it is undeniably an entertaining theory regardless.
07:45Oh, okay, so the theater fairy magically sent in Troy's application?
07:49Performers can't fool me, Ryan. They're deceitful, ambitious, and ruthless.
07:56This might not be the fairy tale we all think it is.
08:00There's a line in the movie where Genie points out Aladdin's outdated fashion style,
08:04and another moment where he says he was stuck in the magic lamp for over 10,000 years.
08:15This means Aladdin could take place in the very far future,
08:19one where the world has been turned into a giant desert from nuclear war.
08:23The flying carpet isn't magic. It's the last remnant of hoverboard technology.
08:31Iago isn't an enchanted talking bird. He's the result of genetic experimentation.
08:36The biggest breadcrumb actually comes from the Sega tie-in game
08:39where players can find what clearly resembles a bomb.
08:42This suddenly makes the movie a lot less magical and a lot more terrifying.
08:54Number 12. Ariel and Hercules are related.
08:58The Little Mermaid and Hercules.
09:00It isn't crazy to think that Ariel has a familial connection to Hercules.
09:05Out of the sea, wish I could be part of that world.
09:23She's King Triton's daughter, and if you know your Greek myths,
09:26you know that Triton is the son of Poseidon.
09:29Poseidon's brother happens to be Zeus, who is Hercules' father.
09:34He's Ariel and Hercules' second cousins.
09:39What makes this theory so interesting is that it's pretty much canon,
09:42even if they don't say it.
09:44Nobody's put them through a 23andMe test, but we really don't need to.
09:47Young Triton even shows up in the Hercules tie-in prequel show.
09:57While he looks different, it's not hard to imagine that he develops a glow-up
10:01by the time he appears in The Little Mermaid.
10:03Either way, this is one stacked family tree.
10:06Number 11. Nemo is dead. Finding Nemo.
10:09At the start of this movie, Nemo's father traumatically witnesses
10:12his wife and children get murdered by a gigantic barracuda.
10:23His whole family is wiped out except for young Nemo.
10:26But what if Nemo died too?
10:30Maybe in his immense anguish, Marlon's mind tricked him.
10:33Maybe it made him think Nemo was still alive when he actually wasn't.
10:42That means that the entire plot of the movie is basically
10:45just happening in his head as he tries to grapple with his trauma.
10:48This drastically changes the entire concept of what Finding Nemo is.
10:52It's no longer an adventure to rescue his son,
10:54but a journey through the stages of grief.
11:00This movie is pretty dark already,
11:02but this theory makes it even more gut-wrenching.
11:05Number 10. Mother Gothel is the Evil Queen.
11:08Tangled and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
11:11Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs contains one of the most
11:14iconic Disney villains in The Evil Queen.
11:17And if this theory holds any water,
11:19she might just show up in Tangled as well.
11:22The theory posits that both stories take place in southern Germany
11:26and that the events of Tangled occurred over 200 years after Snow White.
11:30Gothel also supposedly faked her death at the end of Snow White
11:34and lived for centuries thanks to the golden flower,
11:37eventually leading to the story of Tangled.
11:45Furthermore, both characters are the main characters of Tangled.
11:50Furthermore, both characters are vain and obsessed with physical beauty.
11:54Both wear a similar style dress,
11:56Gothel's dagger resembles the Evil Queen's dagger decor,
11:59and their old age appearances are strikingly similar.
12:03Coincidence?
12:09Number 9. Bing Bong is a Monster.
12:12Inside Out and Monsters, Inc.
12:14Inside Out really knows how to get the tears flowing,
12:18just like having imaginary friend Bing Bong
12:20fade from Riley's memory in the memory dump.
12:22It breaks our hearts just talking about it.
12:29The famous Pixar Universe theory posits that
12:32every Pixar film takes place within the same universe,
12:35and that applies here.
12:37According to this surprisingly tantalizing theory,
12:39Bing Bong was a monster from Monsters, Inc.
12:42who used to make Riley laugh.
12:44And for those who don't remember,
12:47the ending of Monsters, Inc.
12:49saw the titular creature switching from scares to laughter
12:52in order to produce more energy.
12:54Following this logic,
12:55it is possible that Riley based her imaginary friend
12:58off of the monster who used to visit her every night.
13:03Number 8. Captain Hook took Ariel's mother's life.
13:06Peter Pan and The Little Mermaid franchise.
13:10It's quite common for Disney protagonists
13:13to be minus a parent or two.
13:15Ariel, for instance, is without her mother,
13:17as Queen Athena died after meeting a violent band of pirates.
13:29This was the event that fueled King Triton's
13:31hatred of the human race.
13:33A rather tragic theory posits that
13:35the pirates responsible for Athena's death
13:37were none other than Captain Hook and his mischievous crew.
13:43It is, however, possible that Hook captured Athena
13:46and took her to Neverland,
13:47as a mermaid bearing a strong physical resemblance
13:50to Athena and Ariel can be seen lounging on a rock.
13:53If this is true,
13:54it gives us even more reason to hate the one-handed coward.
14:09Continuing the Disney tradition of orphaned protagonists
14:13are Lilo and Nani from Lilo and Stitch.
14:15Ving Rhames voices Cobra Bubbles,
14:17an ex-CIA agent turned social worker in Hawaii
14:20who also has connections to Roswell.
14:27However, the theory postulates that Cobra
14:29is not actually a social worker,
14:31but that he has continued life in the CIA.
14:34In fact, he supposedly once worked with Lilo and Nani's parents,
14:38also CIA agents,
14:40and he's there to look after their kids
14:43You don't look like a social worker.
14:45I'm a special classification.
14:47It's likely that he made some sort of promise
14:49to the girls' parents before they died,
14:51and he used the facade of a social worker
14:53to get close to them.
14:54I know you're trying, Nani,
14:56but you need to think about what's best for Lilo.
15:04One of the most popular theories in the entire Disney canon
15:07regards a new character introduced in Toy Story 2,
15:10and maybe an old character as well.
15:12In the movie's saddest sequence,
15:14Jessie talks about her old owner Emily.
15:16While the two remained close throughout Emily's childhood,
15:18Emily eventually outgrew Jessie and gave her up.
15:29Though it would be a major happenstance,
15:32it is possible that Emily is actually Andy's mom.
15:35Andy, let's go! Molly's already in her car seat.
15:38She'd be the right age,
15:39and we never learn her first name.
15:41Not only that,
15:42but Andy can be seen sporting a Jessie-style hat
15:45in the first movie.
15:46Could this be a hand-me-down accessory
15:48that was once owned by his mother?
15:50An accessory she received alongside her cowgirl Jessie doll?
15:53Hmm...
15:54Come on, Molly. I hope you're getting heavy.
16:00This movie is arguably a lesser Pixar effort,
16:03but it contains what is also arguably
16:05the darkest theory in the canon.
16:07Viewers probably noticed a lack of humans in Cars.
16:12Was it simply a creative decision
16:14to focus on anthropomorphic vehicles,
16:16or is there something more sinister
16:18hiding under the surface?
16:19According to a theory posited by
16:21art department coordinator Jay Ward,
16:23the Cars simply killed all the humans.
16:26You're in a heap of trouble.
16:28In his mind,
16:29the Cars took on the personalities
16:31of their last drivers
16:32and proceeded to wipe out humanity
16:34in a mass extinction event.
16:36We know Disney and Pixar movies
16:37contain some dark material,
16:38but this is something else.
16:41May Doc have mercy on your soul.
16:48It seems like Tarzan might be connected
16:50to many classic Disney films.
16:52For example,
16:53some people theorize that Jane Porter
16:55could be a distant descendant of Belle
16:57from Beauty and the Beast.
16:58But she won't discover that it's him
17:02till chapter three.
17:05Furthermore,
17:06it was previously theorized that Tarzan
17:09and Anna and Elsa from Frozen
17:11were secretly related.
17:12As everyone knows,
17:13Anna and Elsa's parents died in a shipwreck.
17:20But perhaps they survived,
17:22washed up on shore,
17:23established a small settlement in the jungle,
17:25and gave birth to a baby boy.
17:27They were then killed by a leopard,
17:29and the baby was raised by gorillas.
17:31Is Tarzan the long-lost brother
17:33of Anna and Elsa?
17:34Okay,
17:35almost certainly not
17:36as Frozen 2 further disproved it.
17:38But it's still fun to consider.
17:48There's nothing like taking a harmless kids movie
17:50and turning it into a metaphor about the devil.
17:52This theory states that WALL-E
17:54follows a similar structure as the book of Genesis.
18:01The spaceships housing the remnants of humanity
18:03represent paradise
18:05without problems like war or hunger.
18:07WALL-E's seedling is the forbidden fruit,
18:09and by metaphorically consuming it,
18:11the captain loses his blissful ignorance,
18:14abandons paradise,
18:15and returns to the ravaged earth.
18:17The best part of it all?
18:18WALL-E offers the seedling to Eve,
18:20prompting the eventual destruction of paradise.
18:27In this case,
18:28WALL-E is the serpent in the Garden of Eden
18:30who gives the forbidden fruit to Eve.
18:33Ergo, Satan.
18:41The aforementioned Pixar shared universe
18:43strikes again with a particularly loopy theory.
18:46It states that Boo was permanently scarred
18:49by her experiences in Monsters, Inc.
18:51and developed a fascination with the door's mechanics.
18:58Hoping to master the art of dimension hopping,
19:00Boo traveled to the Will-o'-the-Wisp,
19:02believing it to be the source of all magic.
19:04By utilizing its power,
19:06she created magic doors
19:07that can hop between times and dimensions.
19:10She keeps a carving of Sully in her hut,
19:12and she inadvertently created Mordu
19:14while attempting to replicate her old monster friend.
19:18In fact,
19:19Boo is the instigator of the entire shared universe theory,
19:22as the numerous Pixar Easter eggs
19:25are actually objects left behind
19:27by a dimension-hopping Boo.
19:29Overall, it's a very sad theory.
19:33Too many unsatisfied customers.
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19:54Believe it or not,
19:55there is plenty of empirical evidence
19:57that suggests that Chicken Little
19:58is an accurate depiction
20:00of the Forgotten Fallen Sky incident.
20:08We're just kidding,
20:09but did you believe us for a second there?
20:10Now on to the real thing.
20:16As if Up couldn't get any sadder,
20:18this theory posits that Carl Fredrickson
20:20was actually dead for most of the movie.
20:23According to its proponents,
20:24the elderly Carl passed away
20:26from a combination of grief and shock
20:28after learning that he needed to vacate his home.
20:30Tell your boss he can have our house.
20:33Really?
20:34When I'm dead.
20:35Russell is the guardian angel
20:37sent to transition a reluctant Carl to the afterlife,
20:40and it took the form of a young boy
20:42to honor Carl and Ellie's lost child.
20:44This one is missing.
20:46This is my assisting the elderly badge.
20:49If I get it,
20:50I'll become a senior wilderness explorer.
20:53Carl's house represents his tether to the real world,
20:56and Paradise Falls is his own personal heaven.
20:59Russell subsequently gets his wings,
21:01or in this case his merit badges,
21:03and Carl accepts death
21:05when his house lands in Paradise Falls.
21:07And you thought the last one was sad.
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