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music industry forever. ♪ Everything is part of the Pixar Theory ♪ Okay, definitely not the music industry, but it is available on
iTunes if you're interested. But since then, anytime Pixar
has produced a new movie, we have produced a new
video to add that chapter to the Pixar theory explaining
how each new movie fits in. But hey, we get it. Maybe you missed one or two of
those videos over the years. Maybe you didn't see
every single Pixar movie. And with 26 different movies out now, it can be hard to keep
track of every single thing. So today we're simplifying
things and making a brand new, updated, complete Pixar theory. Including everything from "Toy
Story" through "Lightyear", which turned out to just be a
movie inside of "Toy Story". That's how "Light year" fits in. This is the Pixar theory. ♪ Pixar theory ♪ ♪ The Pixar theory ♪ ♪ We're finally going to see clearly ♪ ♪ The Pixar theory ♪ The Pixar theory. By now, I'm sure you've heard of it, but in case you're new, I'm sure you're at least
familiar with the idea that Pixar loves to put little Easter eggs in all their movies, little nods and references
to all of their other works. The Pixar theory is the idea that all these little Easter eggs are more than just nods and references and winks at the audience. They are proof that every
single movie Pixar creates exists in the same universe on the same timeline. So for example, you can
see Riley from "Inside Out" at the aquarium in "Finding Dory." So they must exist in
the same place, right? And then in "Finding
Nemo", you can see this kid reading a comic book of "The Incredibles" and there's a Buzz Lightyear at his feet, So I guess "Toy Story"
is in there as well. And then speaking of "The Incredibles", you can see Duke Kaboom in
Jack Jack's room right here. So "The Incredibles"
are looped in as well, and you can see how it
all builds on itself. But the real part of the
Pixar theory is realizing that if it's one universe, then there must be a through line, a plot that's happening across time and what is that plot? And as ever, I think it's
important to point out that we did not invent the Pixar theory. It was originally introduced to the world by a man named Jon Negroni. He actually even wrote a book about it. But since then, the internet has of
course gone crazy with it and there are tons of
different interpretations and versions of it out there. So the version you're gonna hear today is the one that we have come to accept and build upon over the past 10 years here at Super Carlin Brothers, we don't count any of the shorts, sparks, or shows, just the movies. Let's go. The movies of course, don't
come out in chronological order. We'll have to put them in order ourselves. The first one on the timeline
is "The Good Dinosaur", although I guess you could
argue "Soul" is the first one. "Soul" is kind of
happening all of the time and none of the time and time just works weird in that movie. So I, we're starting
with "A Good Dinosaur". It is particularly important
to the Pixar theory because of this moment right here where the asteroid misses the Earth. This tiny non-event right here is the catalyst for
everything that happens in the Pixar universe. It's why the Pixar universe
is so similar to our own but also slightly different. And the first big change
is pretty obvious. It's how much more the
dinosaurs were able to develop since the asteroid missed. Arlo and his family have
developed intelligence, agricultural practices,
they're building homes, they farmed the land, but
as they say in "Brave", you can't escape your fate. And so even though the
dinosaurs bought themselves a couple extra million years
by the asteroid missing, they're still doomed. Not by an asteroid, however,
but simply by weather, which in the movie is already
causing catastrophic problems. Climate change, who knew? For example, the pterodactyls
used to be able to hunt, but now they have to follow the storm in order to scavenge food. The T-Rexes have to herd animals to provide themselves
a steady food supply, but food is so short that
they're under constant threat of losing their herd to raptors. But on the other hand, we also get an early glimpse
at human life on the planet in the form of Spot who proves
that even the youngest humans are extremely resourceful in ways that the dinosaurs just aren't. What "The Good Dinosaur" establishes for the Pixar universe though is something we're gonna continue to see through the timeline as a
whole. It's this idea that any animal that doesn't get domesticated, like rats or insects or
basically anything underwater, will develop some level of intelligence. Heck, even in "The Good Dinosaur", you can see different
levels of domestication with the chickens. - Yesterday he said
Footless Fran was the worst. - She's only got one foot. - But hey, that's not
the only way an animal might and intelligence, right? You might also be a
human who was magically turned into a bear. That's right. Next up we turn to the movie with mother daughter strife where the main character has red hair and someone gets turned into a giant bear. I'm speaking of course of, "Brave"
"Turning Red" I know. Can you believe it? Isn't it weird that somehow
there is more than one movie with this exact plot? Well, not if you understand
the Pixar theory. Otherwise, it's kind of weird that even a single movie exists with this plot. But honestly, I'm kind
of surprised it took this long for another movie like this to come out because not
only are the plots similar, but so is all of the magic
involved in turning someone into a bear. Real
sentences I say for my job. (whispers) Thank you for watching. Both situations involve
a character from the past searching for power. Sun Yee in "Turning Red"
to protect her family and Mor'du in "Brave" for conquest. And both are granted this
power in the exact same form, giant bear. Mor'du gets it
from the witch in "Brave" and Sun Yee gets it from
the gods apparently. Or does she? Hmm? More on that later. But let's talk about the witch
because the witch's workshop is by far the most curious
thing about this movie, especially as it relates
to the Pixar theory. For one, it introduces us to magic, which is our first glimpse of
things behaving in ways that they're not supposed to. Her crow can talk to humans, her door doesn't work the way
I've ever known doors to work, and the witch herself seems
pretty adept at wielding magic but she is obviously also
not the source of it. For example, her knives
and other sharp objects are quick to turn on her when Merida offers her a
valuable piece of jewelry suggesting they have
some mind of their own outside of the witches
control, or who knows, maybe she's just not speaking
with enough hearts fire, am I right, Barley? - Your hearts fire. You
must speak with passion. Don't hold back. - Indeed Barley. But the other important
bit of magic we see that the witch can do is the
power to change someone's fate. Here's how Merida describes fate. "Some say our destiny is tied to the land, as much a part of us as we are of it. Others say fate is woven
together like a cloth. So the one's destiny
intertwines with many others. It's the one thing we search for or fight to change. Some never find it, but there are some who are led." One's destiny intertwines
with many indeed. Hmm, I wonder who that's about? But anyway, let's get back to bear magic. There's obviously some key differences between "Turning Red" and "Brave." Obviously like one is a giant red panda and the other is black bear, and that Sun Yee is able
to go back and forth between human and panda where as Mor'du just sort of gets stuck as black bear. But there's quite a number
of similarities as well. For example, both sets of
bears have a certain darkness to them. I mean, Mor'du is
basically in full dark mode all the time, even though when he dies
you can see the human spirit inside of him. It's
actually much more at peace, which sort of suggests that
somewhere along the way the bear or primal darkness
or something overtook the man. It's like the scene in
"Turning Red" where Meilin is going through the mirror and
there's like a big struggle. It's like the bear won that and is the one who's left on the outside. Merida's mom also shows moments of advancing towards darkness
throughout the movie, and we see Meilin totally
lose her cool on Tyler when he calls her a freak. Not to mention, you know,
Ming as giant Godzilla panda. Even how you undo the bear
spell is super similar. Both somehow involve a
celestial based time limit. For Merida, it's before
the second sun rises, and for Meilin, it's before
the end of the red moon. Then staying inside of a physical circle and sing with your heart. Oh right, sorry, hearts fire. - My what? - Your hearts fire. You
must speak with passion. - This separates the bear
spirit from the body. Man, even that. A soul
entering or exiting a body after a circle is drawn
on the ground. Why does, why does that sound familiar? (grunts) I'm telling you guys, it's like all these movies
are connected or something. Oh wait, that's why you're here. And yes, I know nobody in
"Brave" is actually singing, but they are standing in a stone circle and everyone is wishing
with all of their heart that Merida's mom is going to come back. Okay, fine. We also don't know
that's what they're thinking, but if you don't think that
Meredith has enough hearts fire on her own to bring her
mother back in this situation, then you need to go watch the movie again. And I mean just compare the separated soul from the bear in each movie. I mean it's just this
translucent ghost of the person who used to live. Coincidence?
- I think not. - Thank you Bernie, but okay,
so magic exists. Souls exist. Humans and animals are
capable of intelligence. What happens next? Machines, yes machines and in fact, the power struggle between
humans, animals, and machines is what takes up the big middle section of the Pixar theory. But I use power struggle
pretty loosely here because it's not like any group is trying to be in control
or suppress the others in any particular way is just that as certain group rise, it's usually at the cost of the others. But I say others pretty loosely here because for the animals their ship sailed with the dinosaurs, like that was their time and from there on out
everything's pretty much downhill, but we'll get into that more later. For now, let's focus on the
introduction of the machines, which happens in "The Incredibles." Which takes place somewhere
around the 1950's and 60's. Here we see the supers who live in a world of constant fear and crime and do their best to fight it until one day they get outlawed, but not before the best of
all of them, Mr. Incredible, offends his biggest fan, Buddy Pine, AKA Syndrome. Turns out this day had
a pretty massive impact. Little did Bob Parr know that by not entertaining little
Buddy's fandom in this moment, he would alter the course of the entire world pretty immensely because the end result is that
young Budford retreats home, locks himself in his room, and invents artificial intelligence in the form of the omnidroids, lethal robots he uses to try and kill off all the supers so that
he can pretend to be one. Too bad for him though, the machines end up being smart
enough to defeat even him. Thankfully the Incredibles
are able to step in and defeat the omnidroid
anyway, but it's too late. The damage is done. AI has been introduced to the world and this event marks
the beginning of the end for the humans in terms
of power on the planet for quite some time, and even marks the beginning of the end for the end of magic on planets abroad. But we'll come back to that one. However, despite this being the
spark that lights the flame, the humans don't like lose
power immediately or anything. Interestingly, the
animals do start to emerge as a bit of a power, but never really take the driver's seat. Well, except for that one time when Dory literally drives a truck off a cliff. I mean, I know it's a
movie about talking fish, but for some reason this
moment I feel like is really where they, you know,
jumped the whale shark. Nailed it. They literally did it though. Meanwhile, on the other
side of the world though, another movie is happening
around this time, "Luca", now if you recall,
at the end of "Luca", Luca and Alberto are
revealed to be sea monsters, a revelation that the people of Portorosso accept and
embrace almost immediately, which is like fine, good for them for being so open minded, but I do feel like it happens
kind of super duper fast for a town with a statue of
a man killing a sea monster, you know, right there in
the middle of it. But nah, we're good. Instead, let's
go ahead and make these two sea monsters the champions of
this year's pasta triathlon. And if that doesn't say progress, then I don't even know what the point of a pasta triathlon even is. That said maybe part of the
reason they weren't as surprised by this sudden revelation
of sea monsters is because they're used to sort of
supernatural things happening in the world like super powers, which we know are things
happening all around the world because of how the end
of "Incredibles 2" goes. But what also lines up
really nicely for "Luca" in terms of the Pixar theory is the cleanliness of the water. I mean, sure Alberto
was littering up a storm at the beginning of the movie, but for the most part it's very clean, which is in harsh contrast to Pixar movies taking place closer to present day, where if you see underwater, it is horribly polluted
anywhere it's near humans and this is sort of a sure
sign of things to come. But actually the second
even closer look underwater because there's another
bit of big consistency within the universe happening. You may have noticed
that the fish in "Luca" are not quite as smart as the other fish we see like in "Finding Nemo." Instead they're more like
sheep. So what gives? And actually we already went over it, it's because the fish and "Luca" have been domesticated
by the sea monsters, much like the chickens were domesticated by the dinosaurs in "The Good Dinosaur." But you might be wondering about now where did the sea monsters come from? And that is a very good question and we will definitely answer it in a little bit. It is quite important. But we did mention "Finding
Nemo." So for now let's move on to our next set of movies
within the timeline, which are the "Toy Story's", "Inside
Out", "Finding Nemo" slash Dory, "Ratatouille" and "Up." Actually "Turning Red" takes
place around this time as well, but we already sort of talked
about "Turning Red", so. Anyway, "Finding Nemo" shows
us just how much the fish, similar to the dinosaurs,
have advanced in intelligence in the absence of humans, they have school systems, traffic lights, a real estate market. - Because a lot of other clownfish had their eyes on this place. - You better believe they
did, every single one of them. - Not only that, but
we also see a lone fish successfully circumnavigate
the globe, find his son, and another group of
fish overpower a human. But not all animals are
out to fend off humans. Instead, in "Ratatouille" we see that Remy works alongside humans to great effect. He literally becomes the
greatest chef on Earth, which is pretty impressive
when you consider that, until then, cooking was
exclusively a human activity. But I guess I should note that while Remy is an exceptional rat, he's
also an exception to the rule. The rest of his family totally
sees humans as the enemy and in the very near
future that is gonna become very true. In the meantime though,
the fact that Remy the rat is actually the greatest chef on Earth, is a secret known only to four humans by the end of "Ratatouille." Linguini, Colette, Anton
Ego, and Chef Skinner and Chef Skinner does not
like Remy and he promptly blabs to the press about
the rats in the kitchen and most people are
just grossed out by this and decided never to eat there again, which I guess they can't anyway 'cause they close down the restaurant. But a very clever person
may have noticed that the rats coincided exactly
with renowned critic Anton Egos review of Gusteaus claiming it as the best meal he ever had and put two and two together and hmm, do we ever see anyone else being served food by animals. - As Epsilon is the
finest chef I've ever had. - Charles Muntz, the
man literally waging war on animals or while a specific animal. (Kevin screeching) A prehistoric animal I might add, which per the Pixar theory has
become incredibly intelligent and evaded capture for 70 plus years and that's evading capture from a guy who by his twenties already
had a dirigible full of some of the world's
rarest artifacts and that's apparently not even
half of his collection. But how smart is Kevin? I mean he's up against Muntz, who recognizes the potential
intelligence of his dogs, and invents collars that allow
him to directly talk to them, but again, it totally fits. Animals like fish, rats, and
Kevins who have been ignored by humans have developed intelligence. Meanwhile, dogs who have been domesticated like Buster in "Toy Story" have not. But Muntz seems to have found
the bridge between the two and has hyper smart dogs capable of cooking food and flying airplanes. Man, I tell you "Up" is
a weird movie sometimes if it's even happening at all. (whispers) Whole video
by clicking the card. But "Up" is important as it does introduce some other big players
to the Pixar theory, namely BNL, AKA Buy N Large, the corporate face of the
machine quietly at work in the background since "The Incredibles." If you don't know, BNL
is actually the company that is trying to buy Carl's house and force him out of the city
at the beginning of the movie. And BNL shows up a bunch in Pixar, I mean most notably in "Wall-E", but also here in "Toy Story
3" where you can see that they produce the batteries inside of Buzz and actually there's a
bunch of little Easter eggs connecting "Up" and "Toy Story." Like you can see a Lotso and
the little girl from Sunnyside in this room right here, the
grape soda cap that Carl wears as the Ellie badge can
be seen as a commercial in Sid's dad's room, and, of course, there's
the infamous postcard on Andy's bulletin board from
the mysterious Emma Jean, who I do not have time
to talk about right now. But let me just say, I
spent the better part of my mid-twenties investigating
this unseen character and eventually took the
question all the way to Pete Docter himself. Wild ride. But while we're on "Toy
Story" and batteries, let's pause because it's
our first great example of one of the bigger
concepts of the Pixar theory, which is how humans are used across it. Which is to say, as batteries. Sort of, it's more like
the power of human memory has the ability to bring things to life. But this is the answer
for how toys come to life and why they're afraid of
being forgotten by their owners because their owners are
literally their life source. "Coco" actually gives us
an extremely good breakdown for how this all works and
I'll explain that in a minute, but for now, just start
thinking of humans as batteries. Where humans are, there is life. Where humans are not, there is not, at least when it comes to inorganic things like toys or machines
or (clears throat) cars. On the other hand, when
it comes to animals, humans' involvement is
typically not so great. We get to see the start
of the humans' real effect on the planet in "Finding Dory" when Marlin, Nemo, and
Dory find themselves amidst a junkyard on the ocean floor. The pollution is vast with
little sign of life anywhere except for the occasional crab and giant bioluminescent squid. But really the trash is
the important thing here because it marks the beginning
of the end for the animals. Unless you're like an animal
that benefits by lots of trash, like I don't know, rats
or something, which hey, look, "Ratatouille" is the
next movie on the timeline. It's like these movies are
connected or something, I swear. But we already talked about rats, so instead let's just move
forward with the pollution to the point where it gets
like truly out of control. (ominous crashing) For that, we have to fast
forward about 100 years to 2105 where the humans have
finally polluted the planet apparently beyond repair and
have to leave in "Wall-E." During that time, BNL, our faceless machine driven corporation,
has basically overtaken every aspect of life on Earth. - Go to full autopilot,
take control of everything, and do not return to Earth. - And ultimately they come
to the conclusion that the planet is a lost cause. So they load up everyone
on a bunch of star cruisers and send them into space and
told their little Wall-E robots can clean up the Earth, which it turns out they
never expected to work. So it makes you wonder why
they made the Wall-E robots to begin with, but whatever it worked out. Either way they evacuate the planet and leave it unpopulated at all, or so they thought, for 700 years. And a lot happens in that time. - Dadgum. - Because with the animals
dead and the human's gone, who's left to inherit the Earth, the cars. They might think like,
well obviously "Cars" doesn't take place on Earth, right? Like it's definitely some
sort of alternate reality or something like that. But no, it's definitely the same
planet the humans were on. For one, it has all of the same places and we get to see a lot
of them in "Cars 2." But it does bring up a lot of questions like how are the cars coming to life? Why do they all have
personalities and names similar to people from our time, just a little bit different? How could it be that they
have their own timelines with dates and stuff? If all of "Cars" took place
during those 700 years, how could they have a 1950's? Even if they started their own timeline, that's too many years. You might be asking the question, are they artificial intelligence?
Are they products of BNL? No. BNL may have polluted the
planet to an unlivable state, but power and domination
was never their goal. They were never trying
to kill off the humans or develop their own race
to inhabit the Earth. BNL's goal was always to
make the lives of humans easier and easier at any,
and I mean any, cost. I mean they literally paid with the entire planet.
(ominous crashing) But seriously, look at how
everyone is treated on The Axiom. Like if your goal is to eradicate humans, why bother keeping them
alive and comfortable? But so if the cars aren't
artificial intelligence, what are they then? Well, how it works is that
the cars are coming to life the same way the toys were coming to life, the same way the monsters will eventually power their cities, with human energy. And while it's very similar to the toys, there are a few key differences. I mean obviously the cars
weren't coming to life while the humans were there
the way the toys were. Plus since they're built as
cars, they still need fuel, oil, maintenance, and
stuff like that to operate. But perhaps the key difference is that the toys are designed as something that is supposed to be brought to
life by a child's imagination and thus typically their
personality matches. Whether that's a cowboy
or a space ranger or a part slinky dog or a potato
with the re-arrangeable face. - Look, I'm Picasso.
- I don't get it. - Cars on the other hand
are not built this way and so don't have a
preexisting personality. Instead, cars on the personality
of their former owners complete with their memories but viewed through a car-ified lens. It also appears that the
cars wake up, if you will, in the same order in
which they were cared for, instead of all at once. This explains why new generations
of cars from Doc Hudson to Lightning McQueen all
the way up to Jackson Storm continue to emerge throughout the series. And why their years in history seem to line up so well with our own. We actually even get a hint as to when the real Lightning McQueen
would've lived as a human thanks to this bandaid on the truck driver in "Finding Dory." And actually if you wanna get
like real deep in the weeds, we have a pretty good
idea who that human was, the actor who played Buzz
in the "Lightyear" movie. (whispers) Full video
by clicking the card. Not Chris Evans, the in
universe Pixar character who was an actor that played
Lightyear in the movie that like Andy watched.
It's all very confusing, But if you're still confused
about how the cars wake up, great news, "Luca" offers
an almost perfect example for how this works. I'm sure you recall in
"Luca" the mystery of what happened to Alberto's father because we don't learn
a whole lot about him other than that he used to
live with Alberto in a tower above the water near town
until he abandoned him. And while it's never confirmed, I feel pretty confident that
Alberto's father's name was, of course, Bruno, as in silenzio Bruno. If you don't recall, silenzio
Bruno is basically Alberto's don't listen to the
voice inside your head, you only live once, let's drive this rickety Vespa
off a cliff into the ocean and just generally ignore
gravity, battle cry. And I mean it makes sense because his dad probably used to tell him not to do such crazy, gravity
defying stuff all the time. But having been abandoned,
Alberto rebels by ignoring any sort of warning echo in his head and instead shouting to the heavens. - Silenzio Bruno!
- Silenzio Bruno! - And this is all relevant
because in "Cars 2" there's a character named Bruno Motoreau who is the French crew
chief of Raoul Caroule. And I'll be real, he is an
exceedingly minor character except that he is almost
definitely the car-ified version of Alberto's father. And for a character that
has almost no screen time, we actually know a
surprising amount about him. He plays the accordion, likes romantic drives along the Seine, and his favorite movie is
The Engine of Dr. Motoreau. Plays the accordion with
what? You don't have hands. But he did. Now interestingly, The
Engine of Dr. Motoreau is a reference to the real life movie, "The Isle of Dr. Moreau" which, and I could not believe this, is a movie about a man
creating human-animal hybrids, you know, like sea monsters. And get this, Seine might
be a river in France, but it also has a second meaning as fishing net and not just
any kind of fishing net, but specifically this kind of fishing net that Alberto was almost caught in at the beginning of the movie. So the idea is that the human Bruno caught Alberto's mother who,
of course, above the water just looked like a human. They fell in love, had Alberto, and then she died. Possibly at the hands of the town's folk who again have a statue of
people hunting sea monsters in the middle of their town which leaves Bruno to raise his son alone and away from town and above the water because he, of course,
isn't a sea monster, which is why Alberto
doesn't live underwater. The point is, the similarities
between Bruno Motoreau's interests and the likely
story of Alberto's father all but prove that this is
how the cars come to life. Got it? Good. But oddly, if you can believe it, that's not even the last connection between the "Cars" movies and "Luca." You know what else connects them? Crabs. Because why wouldn't they? Crabs are weirdly important
to the Pixar theory. Did you know that crabs are
the only non-car-ified creature confirmed to exist inside
of the "Cars" universe? But it's surprising, right? Because didn't all the animals
die off from the pollution caused by the humans,
(ominous crashing) which is why the humans left? But it's actually not that surprising because if you go back to that scene in "Finding Dory" when they're
swimming around the junkyard, what is the only other animal they see? Crabs. And in addition to fish, guess what else the sea monsters domesticated? Crabs. Also, also, actually, actually, we know that as far forward as "Wall-E", there is at least one other critter that seems to have been able to survive. The cockroaches, like
Wall-E's little pet Hal. Which may seem irrelevant here, but crustaceans, such as crabs, are actually extremely
closely related to roaches. Keep that in mind next time
you're having a lobster, right? Just a big ole' sea roach. Like no one ever wants to
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that went on The Axiom, but actually lots of
star cruisers left Earth and went out into the
far reaches of space. You ever wonder what
happened to the rest of them? Like are they just still out there? Honestly, probably, except for one, which didn't have such a happy ending and instead crash landed on
a whole different planet full of magic. Not gonna lie, when I
first watched "Onward", the thing that bothered me the most was that in this like total fantasy world, all of the technology they came up with was almost the exact same stuff we humans came up with except obviously,
they weren't on Earth 'cause there's like two moons. Like how could that possibly be I wonder? How is this gonna fit
into the Pixar theory? Our smartphones and cars just inevitable? No, as ever, the Pixar theory provides. The reason the technology
and "Onward" is so similar to the technology from Earth is that it's from Earth. What happened is one of
the other star cruisers crash landed into the planet of "Onward" and all their technology is being sourced from that star cruiser, which is just packed to the brink with the peak of human technology. And I mean this makes sense, right? Like if a giant spaceship crashed into the middle of your magical utopia, you'd have to explore it and figure out where it came from and what
all of its secrets were, right? And guess what? Telling people where it came from is one of the functions
we know The Axiom can do. Not only that, but it's also
equipped with powerful AI that can tell them how to
do and build most things. And if only a few beings are capable of magic on your planet, you can see why adopting
technology that makes life easier for every troll, gnome,
elf, dwarf, mermaid, and any other creature
around would be preferable. But that is why the cars,
planes, highways, snacks, infrastructure of the entire
modern world in "Onward" is so similar to Earths. I mean heck, they even have the same
brand of TripleDent gum. I guess they just couldn't be
bothered to think of new one, stuck in their head forever. ♪ TripleDent gum ♪
♪ Will make you smile ♪ - This again? - But it really should be no surprise, The Axioms are products of
BNL and they are not shy about suggesting how you
should treat their products. But you might be thinking,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. If BNL is so pervasive,
then shouldn't we see like a BNL logo somewhere
like at least a tiny sticker? No, I thought so too. But instead where you need
to be looking is the horizon, where you can see proof
of the crashed star ship. In the movie the brothers are
questing towards a mountain in the distance called
Raven's Point. It turns out this isn't their true
destination, but it is ours. Because Raven's Point
isn't a mountain at all. The whole movie I kept thinking, man, it looks so familiar. And that is when I looked at
the blueprints for The Axiom. And guess what? It's a perfect fit. And you think, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you telling me those ships
are the size of the mountain? Uh, yes, they are. These ships are absolutely massive and totally mountain size. And if you're wondering
why it doesn't look like a spaceship anymore, that's because it's been
there for hundreds of years and it's just been covered
by nature in the meantime. But anyway, let's get back
to Earth where the cars and apparently a few crabs
are running the place because you might have
noticed that in "Wall-E", the planet looks way more
polluted than we see it in "Cars." You may have also wisely pointed out that there's a ton of plant life in "Cars" that the Eve drones should
have easily been able to find and report back to the captain. Very, very good points,
both of which though are pretty easily explained. First of all, the humans
may have needed to leave way before the planet looks
like it does in "Wall-E." And second, the Eve probes
may specifically be being sent to locations where there is no vegetation to find out if vegetation has
returned to those locations. But either way, it doesn't matter. Every single Eve droid to be coming back with plant life every single time and it makes no difference
because the AI is programmed to never return anyway. At all times, it maintains its directive to stop the captain from
ever learning about it. As for the planet being so brown, well I think that's probably
because the only inhabitant of the planet for several
centuries was cars. But, of course, the cars
too eventually die off. Look, here's poor Todd. kind of weird for them to leave
that car-cass in the shot. Am I right? (laughs) Car, you get it. But it's like we said,
when there's no humans, there's no energy. The cars can survive on
fuel alone for a while, but even by "Cars 2", there's
already an energy crisis. But of course we all know that
is where "Wall-E" steps in and solves everything by
finally delivering a plant to the captain of The Axiom and delivering the humans back to Earth. - We can go back home for the first time. - And what becomes of the humans
after they return to Earth? Well, it looks like they start rebuilding, but eventually we know
they become monsters. Now we've always known this was the case and for a long time our theory was that after returning there was still some like leftover radiation or
something from the pollution that got into the humans
and eventually caused them to mutate into the monsters. But with so many new movies out, we now have a much better understanding of what actually happened and how they transitioned
into the monsters. The answer is, of
course, the sea monsters. See while the above ground
humans all left on The Axioms, it doesn't mean the
sea monsters ever left. The oceans being much
larger than the surface likely allowed them to
spread out and find sanctuary and survive the inter meaning 700 years. I mean, we absolutely know if they don't have to live near land or anything thanks to Luca's creepy uncle. And this offers an
alternate explanation for how those crabs were surviving
during the times of the cars. They were domesticated. But so as the humans
are now able to return to a now livable planet, so too are the sea
monsters able to reemerge above the surface. Where as ever they continue
to take on the form of humans. And if our story about
Alberto's parents is correct, then it means the sea monsters
could procreate with the humans and eventually create
an entire race of monsters. But of course after that happens, it means once again
there's no humans left, which means energy crisis, which is where we find the monsters in "Monsters Inc."
- What are you doin'? - Mikey, there's a scream
shortage. We're walking. - In fact, what is it we
know they're harvesting to run their cities. Oh
yeah, (laughs) human energy. Or more specifically human emotions or even more specifically human memories. Yes, here we go. At last we've explained how humans as an energy source works. Oh, but wait, weren't you gonna tell us
about how the sea monsters came to be in the first place? Yeah, I am. I'll get there. Okay, shh,
I'm talking about batteries. (chair rustling)
I'm over here now. Okay, so if you recall at the
beginning of "Monsters Inc", there is a scare shortage, which if you ask me makes no sense. I mean, we know Sully and Randall are both simultaneously close to breaking
the all time scare record. That means the two best scares of all time are working at the same time
right next to each other on the scare floor. And somehow you're at a scare shortage. - Oh, kids these days. They just don't get
scared like you used to. - Indeed Waternoose, indeed. The solution in the movie is
to switch to laugh energy, which I submit to you
based on what I just said, makes no sense. If talent
is at an all time high, why is scream at an all time low? Well, it's because of how
the scare floor works, which is time travel. When the monsters go through the doors, they enter the human world. But as we've just established, the human world is their world. What the monsters are
doing is just accessing a point in history when humans existed because as ever they need
human energy to survive. As such, when they travel
back in time to scare the kids matters and we have a pretty good idea when they're traveling back to thanks to some of the posters
and toys in the kids' rooms. Namely all these actual posters promoting the opening of Disneyland back in 1955. We also have this Jesse
doll in Boo's room, which would've come out
alongside of a Woody's Roundup, which also came out in the fifties and was super popular until- - Two words Sputnik. - Which for the record
went into space in 1957. So right on cue. But here's the monster's problem. They're only ever able
to travel back in time a set amount of time, meaning that as time progresses
forward in their world, it also progresses
forward in the human world at the same rate. So for example, let's say it's the year
3050 in the monster world and they're traveling back to 1950. Then, in 3051 they'd be
traveling back to 1951. So when Waternoose says, kids just don't scare like they used to, it's because he's up against
the ever-changing nature of the kids in the human world. Interestingly, back on the human reign portion of the timeline in the 1940's is also when the supers were
at the top of their game. - I'm at the top of my game. - Helen says that in an
interview 15 years prior to the events of the
movie in "The Incredibles" where the need for the supers
has all but evaporated. Which explains why scream energy is fading and laugh energy is rising
because it's the same time that Syndrome introduces
AI into the world, which we know then goes
on to make everything way, way, way easier for
the humans moving forward. Prior to that though
the supers were required because they were in
constant danger all the time. It makes sense that scream
energy was what they needed because fear was in constant supply. But over time, joy, not fear
becomes the dominant emotion. You see where we're
heading? Yeah. "Inside out." And this is exactly what we
see inside of Riley's head. Like if you look at her long-term memory, it's mostly joy back there. There's literally just more
joy to harvest from these kids because they have more happy memories and memories specifically not emotions. Emotions just color the memories. "Inside Out" also explains why
children are better targets than adults for harvesting the energy. Because for the most part, all of their memories have
just a single emotion, but when they get older, they have more complex and mixed emotions, which would obviously
be harder to harvest. And boy, let me tell you, since last time we did a complete Pixar theory video, I have personally had three kids and that is absolutely
true. They feel one emotion at a time at 100% and nothing in between. "Inside Out" also introduces
us to the character Bing Bong, whose death is quite powerful. In Riley's mind, Bing
Bong was a real being, not just a memory. So he's able to walk around freely rather than being contained
inside of just an orb. But he still spends most of the movie in this in between state. He's a memory that's never called upon, but he's also not entirely forgotten. And as such, he just sort
of continues existing until eventually he falls
victim to the memory dump. And oddly, this exact
phenomenon is the driving force behind the entire plot of "Coco." Which is why it should
come as no surprise at all that the City of Dead just looks
like a much grander version of the inside of the human mind. The difference of course
being that instead of looking at a single little girl's memories, we're now looking at the memories of several generations of
the people of Mexico. And yet the rules are
pretty much the same, once a year as long as your
family puts a picture of you on their ofrenda, you're
able to cross over into the living world to receive gifts. This is similar to a memory
being called up to headquarters. ♪ TripleDent gum ♪
♪ Will make you smile ♪ - But either way, a friend or not, as long as just one
memory orb of you exists in the mind of any person anywhere, you'll still be allowed
to wander around freely in the City of the Dead. One orb is all you need to keep you alive in the afterlife, you know what I mean. But if you are completely forgotten, then much like Bing Bong, you
experience the final death. And that right there, the concept of being remembered is the very point of the Pixar theory to actively remember
those who came before you to look to the past as
a guide for the future because those who are not
forgotten are not really gone. And once you're aware of it, you'll start to notice this
theme permeates basically every single Pixar movie. In "Toy Story", the toys
greatest fear is being forgotten by their owner because
if they are, they'll die. I mean, look at Wheezy, he's sick because he's nearly forgotten and the prospector is
seeking a kind of immortality by being in a museum. Bob Parr is afraid that if everyone just
forgets the old days, then Mr. Incredible, his
former self will truly die too. Marlin's quest to save Nemo is as much about remembering his wife as it is rescuing his son. Then we have Dory who has
short term memory loss and spends an entire movie showing just how tragic forgetting
can be. I mean, she could have found her parents and not even realized. Arlo is controlled by the guilt and memory of his father's death
and fears he'll never make him proud until his
ghost appears and tells him he's him and more. Barley is also controlled
by his worst memory of not saying goodbye to his dad. While Ian is driven forward
by the desire to have any memories with his dad. In "Ratatouille" Gusteau's
memory is being trashed and dragged through the mud and Remy is out to set it straight. Joe is convinced the only
way he can matter to anyone is as a great piano player
and instead isolates everyone who matters to him. Carl can't let Ellie's memory die and carries it around as literal baggage until he's saved by remembering
what he loved about her and how she'd want him to live. The cars on the other hand, as machines, are starkly not concerned
with being remembered. Doc and Lightning both scoff at legacy and it almost seems like
AUTO is going out of his way to prevent humans from
remembering where they came from. But then there's also
Wall-E whose love of humans and active remembering
of them brings to life a little plant. I mean, how
else are you gonna explain to me that the only plant anywhere near him managed to grow inside of a refrigerator with no access to sunlight or water? It's almost like Wall-E has a soul. Oh, you think Wall-E
is who 22 landed into? Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I mean 22 was on Earth for one day and they spend the entire
time just collecting junk. And what does Wall-E do all day? (laughs) Actually, on that note, as soon as the captain
starts remembering Earth and all the passengers on The
Axiom start remembering Earth, guess what happens to
Earth? Plants everywhere. But while they had forgotten about it. (ominous crashing) But finally that brings us back to "Brave" right where we started,
where the greatest memory of them all lives in the witch's hut. On the back of her door exists
a carving that has absolutely no business existing in medieval Scotland and yet there it is, a carving of Sully. This is because the witch is
not just some random old lady, the witch is Boo.
(epic rumbling) Oh, you need more proof. Well, for one, she's obsessed with bears and Sully looks like a giant bear. And that might be how she remembered him if you only ever knew
him as a little girl. Two, she has a carving of the
Pizza Planet truck right here. And like what? (laughs) How would she even know what that is if she isn't from the future? And three, where did Sully come from when she was a little girl? A magic door. And what does the witch have on her hut? A magic door. What a weird memory to chase
your entire life, right? You'd probably think you were going crazy, but part of you would always
remember your adventure with a giant talking bear. But like was it just a dream? It must have been because giant talking
bears don't exist, right? - [Meilin] People still talk
about Panda-pocalypse 2002. - Oh right? But they do. And can you imagine how the
news of Panda-pocalypse 2002 would affect the then adult Boo? Discovering that this kind
of magic was in fact real? Boo would be roughly 47 around that time, just the age to have a teenage child, likely of Asian descent, probably dressed in flowers like her door because that's how people
dress their kids, right? But I gotta tell you,
sounds a whole lot like Meilin's friend Abby. Which bad news, means that adult Boo not a fan of 4*TOWN. - Mine called it stripper music. - Which it gets to be fair, doesn't mean she doesn't like it. But it does likely mean she
would have tons of liberty to ask Meilin's family about the events of Panda-pocalypse
2002, since her daughter would've been very
directly affected by it. I mean at bare minimum
she would be able to learn a lot about bear magic, which is the exact kind of
magic we are interested in. I mean, going back to her wood shop, does the amount of wood
carving not kind of resemble the giant red panda shrine? And if she discovered time travel as well, which not for nothing is
neatly laid out for her in the in universe film
of that time "Lightyear." - Sox, how long were we gone? - Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. 22 years, 19 weeks, and four days. - Then she could have
actually been the one who went back and gave Sun
Yee the ability to transform into the panda in the first place, thus ensuring an infinite loop where her future self would
always learn about the magic. And she is good with this trick. In fact, it's the very
trick she uses to make sure that Sully himself never
experiences the final death. To ensure that Sully is never forgotten. Because again, all you need
is one memory orb, right? But so how do you ensure that never fades by going into the past
and remembering something from the future, thus
creating a permanent loop. As long as she stays here and sets the events of "Brave" in motion, she ensures the future will always happen. She'll always go on to
be a little girl again and meet Sully, who will
grow up to go back in time and ensure the memory never dies. And believe it or not,
this exact same trick also explains where the
sea monsters came from. We're finally there. (clapping) (water splashing) Here's how it works. We mentioned earlier that
while the humans were gone, the sea monsters were able
to thrive under the water. Once the humans returned, the sea monsters would
likely outnumbered them and eventually they could
interbreed with them and create an entire race of monsters. But so how did the sea
monsters arrive on Earth to begin with? Well, it's pretty simple. The first sea monster was
just a banished monster from the future. In fact, we already know for sure of at least one banished sea monster in "Monsters Inc." - Lochness, Bigfoot,
the abominable snowman. They all got one thing in
common pal, banishment. - Indeed. Now granted Lochness
is obviously in Scotland and we're in Italy and
those are different places, but that's not much of a
problem 'cause obviously you can be banished in
just different places. - Welcome to the Himalayas. - Thank you Abominable. Yes, the Himalayas, which is where Mike and Sully are banished to, proving that the monsters are
happy to use the same door and location to banish multiple monsters. But even so, you must be thinking, wow, they must have had to
banish a lot of sea monsters, like were they just
all breakin' the rules? No, don't forget, the sea monsters all share one particular
condition that would likely be a massive concern for the
people of the monster world, which is that above the
water, they look like humans. And we all know how the
monster world treats humans. - 2319, we have a 2319!
(dramatic music) - So really, banishment
might not be the right word. It's more like relocation, which then would also be
explained why you'd be banished to the Italian Riviera. They're not trying to punish you for looking like a human above water. The people at the top know
you're not actually a threat, but obviously you can't live here. So just live in this nice place. We'll even send everyone
else who's just like you to the same place. But once again, it's an example of how the
future ensures the present or the past, depending on how
and when you wanna look at it. But the point is, it all
leads to the same future and that future is Sully and his memory will never be forgotten. And that is the Pixar theory. Woo. Thank you guys so much for watching our updated Pixar theory
video. Not gonna lie, that was a really long writing session, but I hope you all enjoyed it. The Pixar universe is
so massive, it's so fun to like fill in all the gaps on. Every time we get another movie, I'm like, I don't know how this is gonna fit. But then it always does, so perfectly, and it is like my favorite thing. (epic crashing) If you have any other questions or fun Easter eggs you've
spotted in the Pixar universe. Or just wanna let us know, what is your favorite Pixar movie? Let us know in the towel
section down below. But Ben, otherwise, until next time, I will see you in another life brother. Oh, oh, also, at some point there was a colony of ants
that lived next to a tree.
