u/HauntedPlanter26

I think everyone in this group has heard of the failed Dark Universe franchise(or rather starting of one) and of Tom Cruise in the 2017 "The Mummy", and I totally agree why it was crap. The shortest answer in my opinion is Tom Cruise being the one to potentionally be the main guy in a starter movie series like this and basically being the main hero to assemble them all was a terrible mismatch.

Now don't get me wrong, Tom Cruise is an excellent actor, but its very jarring and out of place seeing a guy who's supposed to be meeting THE Universal Monsters just playing the same action hero he's always been in other movies, which unfortunately takes away from the monsters themselves. Instead of equally sharing screen time on a balanced scale with characters who are popular in their own right, Tom Cruise's character instead absorbs all the spotlight.

So it got me thinking; You know who would've totally been the perfect "character" to fill in for Tom's spot that would balance things out?

Lara Croft.

Think about it.

This is a character who literally lives for exploring old ruins, running into all kinds of enemies, and is prone to accidentally awakening old curses and supernatural forces. She would also be the most exceptional and no doubt skilled fighter and adventurer to keep up with the monsters and perhaps keep them at bay or properly challenged.

It would make sense for her of all people to accidentally awaken The Mummy, she would put up a fight with Dracula whether it comes to him trying to attack OR seduce her, she'd use both a combination of sympathy and wit to get Frankenstein on her side, Lara is more than capable of fighting back at wild predator animals attacking her, so this is how the Wolf Man would be, she'd most likely swim away really quickly to get away from Gill Man even if he was showing affection for her, Jekyll and Hyde would constantly butt heads with her in trying to trick her and she'd keep catching him or tricking him back, and she'd have a strong sixth sense in avoiding The Invisible Man(Griffin's) tactics and perhaps would impress him with her smarts.

This could just be a dream crossover of mine, but who else agrees this kind of shared Universe would not only be badass but make sense?

Considering monsters and villains seem to easily find their way to this desolate farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, do you think Eustace and Muriel would have success if they rented it out for business?

What would the reviews look like?

So, for real world context, I have a client at my job who has Level 3 ASD, and she has a certain routine she likes to follow and certain things she will go to that have to be positioned in the right spots that she has access to. If anything is out of place whatsoever, even if its one of her favorite pairs of scissors or a peculiar cup she drinks from between breaks from her duties, her whole mood will go off and she will go looking for those missing things in others rooms at my place, even going as far as to break into a storage closet if you don't stop her or actively help her look for said items.

So after the Frank update where we discover in the last PARCEL video that someone or something might be taking Frank's journals and remembering the handwritten letter from Howdy in the merchandise about Wally really loving his paint and that he keeps going through it, this all got me thinking; What if just like someone is taking Frank's journals, someone was also stealing Wally's paint that he kept ordering?

We are still learning new things about the neighbors in each update, and what we've come to understand about Wally thus far is he's usually accompanied by his best friend Barnaby, he is seemingly the most helpful neighbor, and he is usually told or instructed on what to do. So it's not a coincidence in the past videos Wally's vibes seem completely off.

I believe in these videos its showing him having a very stressful day that gets progressively worse since he's going to all the neighbors places without Barnaby trying to find his paint. The others don't see anything out of the ordinary since they're used to Wally helping them out and being the quiet type unless spoken to. And the reason he's even more quiet in the backgrounds is because he's stewing with anger after doing a task for a little bit after the neighbors attempt to give him something to do in place of his missing paint.

I think unlike Frank who second guesses himself in his hidden videos when things seem off or are missing, Wally is the opposite. He knows what's not there and is determined to find it and is very certain and knows he is NOT the type of person that misplaces things. He may not get a lot of things in concept, but he's very physical and sensory smart, such as how something looks, sounds, feels, etc. You literally can't get away with anything being out of place with Wally. He will scour the edges of the Earth looking for what he wants, just like my client.

I also believe he eventually ran out of the paint he was using sparingly, which was the result of him having a nervous breakdown in the last video with Barnaby.

So I was watching some Cinema Therapy on YouTube on an episode of how they diagnosed some Disney villains, and it got me wondering why nobody has attempted to do a psychological study in depth on each of Courage's villains?

Lots of people talk about how scary they are, but I never see people attempting to study them psychologically.

The closest we've had(which to be fair makes a lot of sense for these characters) is Dr. Zalost and Eustace.

I'd love to see what people think some of these characters backstories are, what or who made them the way they are, if they could've been saved, etc, etc.

OK, so to start out, there's been so many theories about Toy Story over the years, Buzz Lightyear as a character being the hottest topic. One of the biggest mysteries STILL to this day is why Buzz seems to be the only toy that has the misbelief that he's the actual character Buzz and not a toy?

When we were kids watching this guy, we were under the impression he was the super confident cool guy who knew what he was doing, especially with his supposed mission. But now come to think of it, he never really had agency since he constantly has to be a space ranger. He needs to be a space ranger to have meaning. And what's even more strange is in the supposed "Lightyear" film, unlike Disney princesses, we never get to see Buzz's actual true origin. We never see him as a kid or who he was before he became a space ranger.

I've seen a guy mention how Buzz is actually a sufferer of DID due to his identity being screwed with in the third movie and his disassociation in the first movie, and come to think of it, I realize who Buzz shares some chatacteristics with: Master Chief from the "Halo" games.

This Spartan soldier was taken to a program where he was replaced by a clone of him to replace him with his family, essentially never had a childhood, and pretty much knew nothing besides warfare and protecting humanity all of his life. What if the same backstory applies to Buzz?

This would not only explain Buzz's need and almost religious devotion to being who he is labeled as, but when he first awakens in Andy's room, he doesn't recognize he's in a child's room. This is because Buzz may've been robbed of his childhood upon being snatched to get trained in this so called "Star Command Academy"​, therefore never knowing a normal childhood.