#theory

Alright. So, this absolutely never made sense to me when I watched the shows, but now after watching both shows endings again (for like, the 5000000th time, how did I just get this now, lol), I think I’m seeing a certain view I didn’t see before that many people are confused about. So I wanna see if this makes sense to anyone else.

Ok, so some people thought that Jim was never supposed to change back in Wizards. But after looking into this, it made more sense to me.

A few people after Trollhunters season 3 came out, said that they should’ve just made the new voice actor for Jim’s voice, voice Jim as his half troll form instead of his human form and troll form. Since of course, we all thought he wasn’t going to change back.

By the point Anton passed away though, most of Trollhunters Jim was already acted out, and they’d need to make the end of season 2 completely different and probably end off season 2 with finding Merlin. Then turn Jim into his troll form by the 3rd episode of season 3 to play it out in a way where Jim’s voice only changed when he’d be turned into a troll. But it would also seem like a waste to throw all those Anton voice recordings away, and change the plot to hurry it up in season 2, where it’d almost seem too rushed and forced.

I think they mostly played it out how they did, and kept the story the way it was, so we would get used to the new voice actor acting as human Jim. So when human Jim came back, it wouldn’t seem unnatural to us since we would be so used to Anton playing him. But with us getting used to Emile Hirsch playing both of Jim’s forms and not just troll Jim’s, (especially since theres a movie coming up they’ve been writing and working on for over 5 years that would include human Jim again) it now seems like that’s somewhat of a giveaway that he could return, just watching Trollhunters season 3 and the end of Wizards.

If you think there could’ve been a different reason, feel free to say it, but with how Jim’s character was played out regarding his voice actors, it’s starting to make sense to me now with something me, and apparently many were, and are, very confused about. I wanted to post this to see if it clears anything up if this makes any sense. I’m not the absolute best at explaining so please let me know if it doesn’t

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Thoughts on Bendy, Chapter 5

A bit obvious, but

*****SPOILERS AHEAD!*****

If you haven’t seen/played chapter five, this will ruin it for you. Avert your eyes! XD

Okay. So, I started typing this over in the comments on Seán’s video, but I realized things as I was typing, so I’m putting down here instead.

I keep seeing a lot of comments along the lines of “the ending is unclear” and “I don’t get it” and “the ending was so unsatisfying”, but I think you guys are looking at this in all the wrong ways. Take a minute to reflect back on everything that has happened, hear me out, and maybe you’ll think of it in a different light.

Joey orchestrated the whole ordeal. Joey wrote it. Well, he drew it, actually. We saw the pictures he drew on his desk in his apartment. He had the entire story of BATIM storyboarded out there. He knew what was going to happen, and even said he was expecting Henry at a specific time- an hour later than it actually took Henry to get back- knowing that Henry would arrive. (EDIT: This is why Henry doesn’t stay dead when Bendy or one of the other monsters kills him, because that isn’t the ending Joey wrote for Henry. Henry crawls back to life through the Fallopian tube of ink because Joey has written him as the winner.)

That means that Joey is the one who wrote all of the glowing text on the walls. Stay with me here:

Alice hands Henry a magic piece of glass after a couple of scenes that are broken up by sleep cycles. She calls it glass, but I don’t think that’s what it is. I think it’s acetate.

Acetate is a special plastic used by traditional animators to add layers on top of a scene. That way, the background could remain the same while the characters did their thing on a completely separate layer. It meant less work for the animators, too, as they didn’t have to redraw the background for every frame.

Did you catch that? Acetate was used to add layers. It makes sense that it would reveal the hidden messages in this cartoon-based world.

When Henry looks through the glass, what was the first glowing text Henry saw? 

“She will leave you for dead.” 

And what did Alice and Tom do? Leave him behind to escape Bendy. Predicted. Scripted. Predestined. Joey had it all right there on his desk at home. 

And Henry discovers even more hidden messages inside his little “cell” (appropriate name for it, too, considering a frame of animation is literally called a Cel [short for cellulose acetate]). The glowing text complimented Henry’s drawings on the floor. Drawings that weren’t there when Henry arrived, inside an enclosed area that Henry had to literally break out of with a big old pipe. The only way to get in and out of there besides breaking the boards would be to walk through the walls. And what does Bendy do in phase one of the boss fight? Run through the walls.

But if Bendy is the only character who can phase through the walls, then how would Joey-?

Because Joey created Bendy. He made Bendy in his own image. The Jesus to his God, and Bendy can be influenced by his creator, but not controlled for long periods of time. It makes sense when you think about it. 

In the flashback, Joey is standing in the kitchen. There’s a wheelchair veryclose by, and when he turns away from the sink to address Henry, he visibly limps to the opposite counter. 

Bendy walks with a significant limp.

And haven’t we seen a wheelchair before in a previous chapter? I’m almost certain we have, although I can’t place exactly when or where in my mind.

Furthermore, there is an ink machine in Joey’s apartment in the final scene. And it’s running. We can hear it glugging along as we look at the picture on the wall. It’s active and in his apartment. It kind of reminds me of when older people need machines at home to keep them alive. Oxygen tanks, IV bags, etc. They are connected to them.

Joey and Bendy are actively linked through the ink and the ink machine.

SO- They are linked and Joey can influence Bendy to walk through walls and write the messages for Henry made out of ink…but it isn’t ink. It’s something more than ink, but it comes from the ink. Whenever Henry looked through the glass, there were glowing orbs rising from the ink streams.

And since the ink is linked to Bendy who is linked to Joey, the golden ink must come directly from Joey. Almost as if it is pure creativity, untainted by greed. Or looking back on a memory with different eyes. Older and wiser eyes. It indicates Alice as an angel, even though she claims she isn’t one. 

So the final question is why? Why make Henry go through all of this? Why not face his demon (literally) and beat Bendy by himself?

He’s too old. Joey couldn’t physically haul his own body down into the depths, wading through ink and falling through the floors. It would kill him. That and his creations are pretty pissed at him all the time. They would attack him and he wouldn’t have been able to defend himself. He’s an old man at the end of his life.

Henry is a good friend of his. Why else would he ask him to come over? To go down there? Henry was the one who had written the message we see on the picture in the final cut scene. 

He trusted Henry to do it, because Henry was strong enough to make his own happiness in life, rather than letting the business consume him and beat him down. Joey admits to letting the cartoons become his life.

Read that again: he says “I let them become my life.”

That gets to the core of this story.

It isn’t just that Joey created Bendy and the ink monsters. Not even that he created Bendy in his own image. They exist because Joey literally gave them life- part of his own. The people who worked there fuel their ink monster-personas with their own lives, too. They were too weak to escape the ink. To escape the failing business. But there are so many more monsters than there were employees.

Because each one of them has a piece of Joey’s actual life force in them.

The glowing text… the golden orbs that rose from the ink… that’s Joey.

It’s all linked back to him. And the hell that exists down in the old studio will not cease to be until Joey dies…which is not far off, from the look of him.

The only wrench in the machine was Bendy. Bendy has a mind of his own. As one of the other characters put it: an otherworldly quality. If Joey dies and Bendy is still alive, the cartoon world will continue on without him. So, Joey asking Henry to go down there to beat Bendy was Joey accepting that his time is short and he’s going to die. He’s at peace with that.

And Bendy’s death is no cop-out. He’s a cartoon. How do cartoons end? With a “The End!” endcard. As Porky Pig said: That’s all, Folks!

When an animation ends, the characters don’t come back and have more adventures until their creators draw them doing new things. Take the Animaniacs, for example- there was a final episode for them. (Yes, I realize the series is getting a reboot, but they aren’t back yet, so this example works.) They ceased to be when the final episode finished. Sure, we remember them and watch reruns, but nothing new was created. They effectively died with that episode.

Showing the endcard to Bendy was the most cartoon-logical way to end his existence. It followed the rules of the cartoon world in which he existed.

And my last little side note:

I think the girl’s voice we hear in the final cut scene is Henry’s daughter. She calls him “Uncle Joey”, which is definitely what some families have their children do to address extremely close family friends. (I had an Uncle Pete who wasn’t related to our family at all, but was one of my dad’s closest friends.) And when Joey says that Henry chose the path that gave him a wonderful family, he gestures to the left, to the living room, which is where we hear her voice coming from in the cut scene.

She says “Tell me another one, Uncle Joey.” Tell me another story. Maybe Joey was telling her the story that Henry was living out in the studio below. We may never know for sure. 

Thoughts? Anything else to add? All in all, chapter five was a great way to wrap up the story. And I really freaking enjoyed it! All that’s left to see now is if there’s anything in the extras, any extra lore in the hidden messages that you’ll be able to see once unlocking the glass after chapter five, or if the version they released to everyone else is any different from the Jacksepticeye edition. Keep your eyes peeled, everybody!

I agree with part of this, but not all. I believe the ending was signifying that Henry is caught in a loop, because my friend and I went back and continued on chapter one and found more messages (we’ll continue today to find more) and we found that the messages weren’t written by Joey, but HENRY instead. There are tally marks on the wall in the entryway to signify multiple times being there, and over a picture of Boris it says “sorry buddy”, not to mention when you fall through the floor, the wall says “I always fall”, among other messages predicting things. Like “peekaboo” where the Bendy cutout startles you heading towards the flow room. We believe he’s caught in a loop and has to break the cycle, which is why Joey said “you didn’t press hard enough”. We think he’s saying we have to do something different, maybe SAVE the lost souls. We’re going to go through every chapter to try and find more clues and messages and hopefully piece it all together, not to mention hopefully show Allison the plastic device and prove we’re good, also show her that we’re in a loop and hopefully we can diverge the path and finally break the cycle. We believe Joey has seen the loop, that’s how he knew it would happen, and we are simply playing as an earlier “instance” of Henry who didn’t write the messages yet. A version of Henry that has already looped several times is the one who wrote the messages. It’s all the same guy, but we aren’t as far ahead in the loop he’s been through.We theorize that having the plastic thing in the start of the loop will help us cause a break once we reach Allison, make her aware of the loop, and that we will go do something useful instead of sleep, wake up, sleep wake up, etc. I’ll update once we find out more.

If everyone who gets attacked by hollows starts noticing the presence of spirits, like Tatsuki and Orihime, shouldn’t a noticable portion of the world have some knowledge of spirits already, thereby alerting the rest of the world of spirits? Shouldn’t Yuzu be able to see some now, since she was attacked by hollows? Could a character who can kind of see spirits, like Karen or Kanonji, only have that power because they were previously attacked by a hollow?

The next trilogy with Tom Holland’s Spiderman should be happening and im calling it now, Ned will die in that trilogy. Sometime before he dies he will remember everything from no way home and before.

I have more theories on Ned, I’ll save for a later post.

”Just as Lucas borrowed plot points and characters from Akira Kurosawa’s samurai movies, the costumes were clearly taking cues from Japanese traditional dress.

“It is distinctively different from the whole Western fashion tradition, and that’s an important thing to try and get a sort of ‘alien’ look,” Steele explains of the Japanese influence. “So the fact that it’s flowing, it’s sort of long, T-shaped garments, and sort of stylized armor, as opposed to clothing that is sort of tailored and fitted to the body.”

Not coincidentally, it was at that very moment that an emerging class of Japanese avant-garde designers were beginning to toy with their country’s folk costume in a movement that would soon reverberate in the Western world’s fashion capitals. Rei Kawakubo, Yohji Yamamoto, Kansai Yamamoto, and Issey Miyakewere experimenting with surreal and cerebral shapes and bulbous gatherings of fabric that resemble the fresh, outer-world look of Star Wars, with perhaps less threatening results. (Yohji Yamamoto debuted his first collection in Tokyo the year of Star Wars’ premiere, and the others began showing in Paris in the early 80s. The group would be immortalized in a 1983 New Yorker article by Kennedy Fraser prophetically titled “The Great Moment.”)

“It’s hard for me to believe it was entirely accidental because if you think about that particular period right when Star Wars came out, that was right when Japan ruled the world,” Steele says. “The Japanese economy was on top of the world, they were taking over all kinds of companies, and I think there is definitely a hint of an idea that Japan was kind of like this evil empire. So whether consciously or unconsciously, [Mollo] is picking up on Japanese themes in dress for the costuming.””

-FromVanity Fair by Rachel Tashjian 

Read more here!

they’re going to team up and kill her because she probably killed kenny

The reason they have those “please don’t bring merchandise into the bathrooms” signs at bookstores is that like in the 90s, it became a thing to go to the bookstore and take a book into the bathroom to read while pooping. So there were a lot of nice picture books in the vicinity of the bathroom that people had left immediately after pooping, so a bunch of books in the vicinity of the bathroom were grimy and old from overuse. And the bookstores were losing sales because those grimy books were stigmatized. So bookstores came up with the sign.

Okay, so in the recent livestream that they did for Tiger & Bunny 2, Episode 5, we learned that Antonio likes Agnes, but this is a secret (or like, something that shouldn’t be mentioned, I’ve seen some Japanese fans saying NG = no good or オフレコ (ofureko = off the record).

So some Japanese fans are speculating that Agnes may be pregnant with Antonio’s baby or that Antonio keeps bringing Agnes high calorie foods (b/c he likes her, so he is bringung her food, etc.).

I don’t mind the idea of Agnes gaining weight because she is pregnant. I think it is important to have media that depicts pregnant women working. My only worry is that they’ll do something like have her quit after having the baby or lose weight and suddenly be skinny again (if this does end up being the case). If she doesn’t quit though and isn’t suddenly skinny again like magic, then I’ll be more okay with that idea. We have a female director this time, so if they do go down this route, I have a bit more faith in them.

Of course, this is all just fan speculation and theorizing. Still interesting to think about and possibly something we will see being addressed in the second cour of season 2.

OK so i heard of the ADHD!Marinette headcannon/theory and i love it so much it’s cannon to me forever, and i was wondering if the reason she can unite multiple Mircaulouses at once is cause of that. Like we see it take affect on her in KwamiBuster but what if the only reason she was able to push through like she did was cause she was hyper-focusing on the fight? speaking from exprance, when you’re hyper-focused you forget to do (or just ignore) basic needs such as eating, drinking, going to the bathroom, ect. so what if that’s why? and what if combining 2 miraculous DOES take a small toll on Marinette but she doesn’t notice cause of her ADHD? or i’m looking to far into this… idc eiter way tbh