well think about it dude welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 craziest
video game theories for more gaming
videos check out our new spinoff channel
mojo plays for in-depth reviews
thoughtful video essays detailed
character origins and insightful
commentary mojo plays games smarter we
all love to overanalyze a good game so
for this list we’re looking at far-out
fan theories that aren’t officially
canon but which we think are clever
creative or just batshit crazy
Marya I’m finished with you what I’m
what you wanted
number 10 starfox pilots have to
amputate their legs starfox
[Music]
at a glance Nintendo’s star box
franchise is a delightful shoot-’em-up
adventure about gutsy space pilot fox
mccloud and his anthropomorphic animal
friends but for some gamers this cute
exterior hides a very dark secret art
for the game seems to show the pilots
with metal legs giving rise to
speculation that they’ve undergone
amputation to better survive intense
g-forces if true it must have really
sucked for some people when G diffusers
were introduced on our Wings in the
sequel starfox 64 starfox programmer
Dillon Cuthbert has claims the creators
of the original puppets just couldn’t be
bothered making feet but man those
ankles really are awfully slender number
9 the story in five nights at Freddy’s
five nights at Freddy’s Scott coffins
popular point-and-click horror game
about animatronic murder bots in a pizza
restaurant may seem pretty
straightforward to newcomers but fans
believe that there’s a complex
overarching plot that brings together
all the disparate elements although
coffin has claimed that as of the fourth
game no one’s figured it out is foxy
just misunderstood is the pizzeria a
kind of purgatory the same plot device
brought in to make sense of all the
random crap and lost is there a real
Freddy fazbear’s pizza restaurant well
if you’re wondering there isn’t but that
hasn’t stopped fans from Mass calling at
least three different unfortunate
pizzerias number eight the Pokemon war
pokemon red and blue many tales have
been passed down of the extraordinary
adventures we humans share it with our
Pokemon friends there have been
conflicts too but over the ages we learn
to live together in harmony on the one
hand the world of Pokemon is a bright
exciting land full of adventure and
potential animal friends sure you’re
essentially capturing wild animals and
forcing them to fight each other but hey
the battle stops when they pass out so
that’s nice I guess
but in pokemon red and blue lieutenant
serge mentions that electric pokemon
saved him during the war and suddenly a
whole dark history begins to unfold
answering a lot of hitherto unanswered
questions like where are everyone’s
parents why are there so few middle-aged
it all makes sense if the population was
decimated in a horrific Pokemon war
leaving only children women and grizzled
War veterans alive
[Music]
number seven companion cubes have people
inside them portal when you’re cut off
and alone really any friend will do
trapped in the test chambers of Aperture
Science it’s easy to become attached to
your trusty companion cube but in the
end it’s just to create painted with
hearts right well some fans think there
are actually people stuffed inside the
theory is inspired by a tie-in comic in
which the cube of aperture employee doug
rattman appears to talk in the game
GLaDOS warns Chill not to listen if her
cube pipes up rat men’s conversations
probably have something to do with his
anti-psychotic medication running out
but we have to admit GLaDOS is one
pretty twisted AI so we wouldn’t put it
past her
I just like to point out that you are
given every opportunity to succeed there
was even going to be a party for you
number six Mary’s body is in James’s car
Silent Hill – it’s too bad we have to
leave please promise you’ll take me
again James Konami’s classic survival
horror game takes the player on a
convoluted psychological journey to
investigate the death of the
protagonists wife but it turns out
spoiler alert the killer was him after
all in the water ending James drives
over a cliff saying now they can be
together without you Mary I’ve got
nothing
while this could mean together in death
in the rebirth ending James plans to
revive her corpse which some gamers
interpret to mean that it’s actually
quite close at hand for example in the
trunk of his own car well it’s a theory
number five you’re the villain limbo on
the surface limbo seems to be about a
loving brother who Braves death to
reunite with his sister in the
underworld and when we say death we mean
a lot of deaths over and over but fans
have offered an even darker
interpretation suggesting that the boy
has been co-signed to the underworld for
murdering his sister in some mythologies
the underworld is a place where the dead
are cursed to suffer for the same sin
over and over the idea is that in limbo
our protagonist is forced to undergo a
long and buried series of horrific
deaths before he can join his sister in
the afterlife number four the elder
scrolls and fallout are in the same
universe the Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim and
fallout 4
[Music]
Skyrim is set in a fictional fantasy
world and fallout in a post-apocalyptic
version of earth but what if Skyrim is
just on a different planet from the
world of Fallout or even maybe in
fallouts distant past in Fallout 4
players can stumble across a
bioluminescent plant with restorative
properties that was first discovered at
the mouth of a river it has a remarkable
resemblance to Nirnroot a plant in
Skyrim that also faintly glows and grows
near the water it’s probably just a fun
Bethesda Easter Egg or maybe it’s a clue
to a larger universe where plants
survived millions of years and travel
through space maybe number 3
indoctrination theory Mass Effect 3 the
ending of Mass Effect 3 you left many
gamers in an uproar in a series all
about choices the game’s finale offered
players some difficult and for many
dissatisfying options destroy synthetic
life bringing down the Reapers merge
with them and take control or somehow
fuse organic and synthetic life with
weird green light and please don’t think
about it too much and so because of the
dissatisfaction with these options a
theory was born the Reapers have an
energy field that can brainwash organic
beings a process known as indoctrination
what if Sheppard has been indoctrinated
and the ending only happened in his head
actually no it’s not sure the ending
just sucked haha
[Music]
you know who I am
number two squall is dead Final Fantasy
8 we’re used to game characters
surviving things that would normally
kill a person in real life but what
about getting impaled by an ice javelin
as thick as your arm during an
assassination attempt gone horribly
wrong squall is easily defeated by the
sorceress but later he wakes up and
seems pretty much fine with his wounds
completely gone
one fan explanation is that squall dies
and the rest of the game is all a dream
at his dying mind this theory is further
fueled by the ending which shows rinoa
supposedly fading from squalls dying
memory as well as by one of the most
disturbing freeze frames you will ever
see number one link is dead The Legend
of Zelda Majora’s Mask
at the beginning of majora’s mask link
is searching for a beloved and
invaluable friend
Navi his fairy companion in ocarina of
time according to one popular theory
he’s so distraught at her departure that
he passes through the five stages of
grief with Clock Town representing
denial and the other locations anger
bargaining depression and acceptance but
a more radical theory still postulates
that link is dead and that he is in
purgatory that his grief is actually
over his own death at the start of the
game makes you think huh do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 craziest
video game theories for more gaming
videos check out our new spinoff channel
mojo plays for in-depth reviews
thoughtful video essays detailed
character origins and insightful
commentary mojo plays games smarter we
all love to overanalyze a good game so
for this list we’re looking at far-out
fan theories that aren’t officially
canon but which we think are clever
creative or just batshit crazy
Marya I’m finished with you what I’m
what you wanted
number 10 starfox pilots have to
amputate their legs starfox
[Music]
at a glance Nintendo’s star box
franchise is a delightful shoot-’em-up
adventure about gutsy space pilot fox
mccloud and his anthropomorphic animal
friends but for some gamers this cute
exterior hides a very dark secret art
for the game seems to show the pilots
with metal legs giving rise to
speculation that they’ve undergone
amputation to better survive intense
g-forces if true it must have really
sucked for some people when G diffusers
were introduced on our Wings in the
sequel starfox 64 starfox programmer
Dillon Cuthbert has claims the creators
of the original puppets just couldn’t be
bothered making feet but man those
ankles really are awfully slender number
9 the story in five nights at Freddy’s
five nights at Freddy’s Scott coffins
popular point-and-click horror game
about animatronic murder bots in a pizza
restaurant may seem pretty
straightforward to newcomers but fans
believe that there’s a complex
overarching plot that brings together
all the disparate elements although
coffin has claimed that as of the fourth
game no one’s figured it out is foxy
just misunderstood is the pizzeria a
kind of purgatory the same plot device
brought in to make sense of all the
random crap and lost is there a real
Freddy fazbear’s pizza restaurant well
if you’re wondering there isn’t but that
hasn’t stopped fans from Mass calling at
least three different unfortunate
pizzerias number eight the Pokemon war
pokemon red and blue many tales have
been passed down of the extraordinary
adventures we humans share it with our
Pokemon friends there have been
conflicts too but over the ages we learn
to live together in harmony on the one
hand the world of Pokemon is a bright
exciting land full of adventure and
potential animal friends sure you’re
essentially capturing wild animals and
forcing them to fight each other but hey
the battle stops when they pass out so
that’s nice I guess
but in pokemon red and blue lieutenant
serge mentions that electric pokemon
saved him during the war and suddenly a
whole dark history begins to unfold
answering a lot of hitherto unanswered
questions like where are everyone’s
parents why are there so few middle-aged
it all makes sense if the population was
decimated in a horrific Pokemon war
leaving only children women and grizzled
War veterans alive
[Music]
number seven companion cubes have people
inside them portal when you’re cut off
and alone really any friend will do
trapped in the test chambers of Aperture
Science it’s easy to become attached to
your trusty companion cube but in the
end it’s just to create painted with
hearts right well some fans think there
are actually people stuffed inside the
theory is inspired by a tie-in comic in
which the cube of aperture employee doug
rattman appears to talk in the game
GLaDOS warns Chill not to listen if her
cube pipes up rat men’s conversations
probably have something to do with his
anti-psychotic medication running out
but we have to admit GLaDOS is one
pretty twisted AI so we wouldn’t put it
past her
I just like to point out that you are
given every opportunity to succeed there
was even going to be a party for you
number six Mary’s body is in James’s car
Silent Hill – it’s too bad we have to
leave please promise you’ll take me
again James Konami’s classic survival
horror game takes the player on a
convoluted psychological journey to
investigate the death of the
protagonists wife but it turns out
spoiler alert the killer was him after
all in the water ending James drives
over a cliff saying now they can be
together without you Mary I’ve got
nothing
while this could mean together in death
in the rebirth ending James plans to
revive her corpse which some gamers
interpret to mean that it’s actually
quite close at hand for example in the
trunk of his own car well it’s a theory
number five you’re the villain limbo on
the surface limbo seems to be about a
loving brother who Braves death to
reunite with his sister in the
underworld and when we say death we mean
a lot of deaths over and over but fans
have offered an even darker
interpretation suggesting that the boy
has been co-signed to the underworld for
murdering his sister in some mythologies
the underworld is a place where the dead
are cursed to suffer for the same sin
over and over the idea is that in limbo
our protagonist is forced to undergo a
long and buried series of horrific
deaths before he can join his sister in
the afterlife number four the elder
scrolls and fallout are in the same
universe the Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim and
fallout 4
[Music]
Skyrim is set in a fictional fantasy
world and fallout in a post-apocalyptic
version of earth but what if Skyrim is
just on a different planet from the
world of Fallout or even maybe in
fallouts distant past in Fallout 4
players can stumble across a
bioluminescent plant with restorative
properties that was first discovered at
the mouth of a river it has a remarkable
resemblance to Nirnroot a plant in
Skyrim that also faintly glows and grows
near the water it’s probably just a fun
Bethesda Easter Egg or maybe it’s a clue
to a larger universe where plants
survived millions of years and travel
through space maybe number 3
indoctrination theory Mass Effect 3 the
ending of Mass Effect 3 you left many
gamers in an uproar in a series all
about choices the game’s finale offered
players some difficult and for many
dissatisfying options destroy synthetic
life bringing down the Reapers merge
with them and take control or somehow
fuse organic and synthetic life with
weird green light and please don’t think
about it too much and so because of the
dissatisfaction with these options a
theory was born the Reapers have an
energy field that can brainwash organic
beings a process known as indoctrination
what if Sheppard has been indoctrinated
and the ending only happened in his head
actually no it’s not sure the ending
just sucked haha
[Music]
you know who I am
number two squall is dead Final Fantasy
8 we’re used to game characters
surviving things that would normally
kill a person in real life but what
about getting impaled by an ice javelin
as thick as your arm during an
assassination attempt gone horribly
wrong squall is easily defeated by the
sorceress but later he wakes up and
seems pretty much fine with his wounds
completely gone
one fan explanation is that squall dies
and the rest of the game is all a dream
at his dying mind this theory is further
fueled by the ending which shows rinoa
supposedly fading from squalls dying
memory as well as by one of the most
disturbing freeze frames you will ever
see number one link is dead The Legend
of Zelda Majora’s Mask
at the beginning of majora’s mask link
is searching for a beloved and
invaluable friend
Navi his fairy companion in ocarina of
time according to one popular theory
he’s so distraught at her departure that
he passes through the five stages of
grief with Clock Town representing
denial and the other locations anger
bargaining depression and acceptance but
a more radical theory still postulates
that link is dead and that he is in
purgatory that his grief is actually
over his own death at the start of the
game makes you think huh do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe
for new videos every day
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