This Online Group Is Dedicated To Movie Fan Theories And Speculations, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones

The reason Captain America is able to wield Mjolnir now is because he is worthy. This seems like a duh but it's not so simple.

In Age of Ultron we see that he is able to move the hammer because for a moment the hammer senses all the good that Cap is but then it notices his one fault...

Later in the movie Scarlett Witch gives all of the Avengers nightmares and they see their worst fears realised. Cap's worst fear is that there will be no more fight. No more war.

THIS is the exact reason Odin took Mjolnir from Thor and placed the spell on it. "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor." Remember that Thor had a strong desire for combat regardless of the consequences. He was unable to see how to resolve conflicts without violence. This seemingly makes someone unworthy.

Now back to Cap in Endgame. He has never felt such defeat like this ever before in his life. But rather than punching away and breaking 30 punching bags a day(Avengers 2012) he is counseling people through their loss. Then in the elevator he easily could have taken all those guys down(we have seen it before Winter Solider 2014) but this time he realizes he doesn't need to fight when he can trick them and no one gets hurt. He obviously had no choice but to fight thanos when he was right there in front of them but he did not want to "punch his way out of this one"-Black Widow(Civil War 2016)... he just wanted to bring back everyone they lost.

Now to the end... just like Tony. Cap is ready to rest. He is ready to live a normal life and just be happy. He isn't Captain America anymore. He hasn't been since the Snap. He has just been Steve Rogers. Trying to do what's right and go back home. This makes him worthy.

With the golden ticket scheme, Wonka was trying to expand his company's empire. All five of the children were specifically chosen because of their preexisting relationship to food. Take a look at Veruca Salt. Her family owns a nut factory, a logical business pairing with a chocolate manufacturer. Mike Teavee is an unwitting expert on media, advertising, and technology because of his addiction to television. On the tour, Wonka specifically shows Mike the prototype for Wonka Vision. Although Mike fails the test, I believe Wonka's original goal was to put Mike in charge of this innovative technology. Violet Beauregarde holds the world record for gum-chewing, so who better to help with the development and advertisement of his new Three Course Dinner Chewing Gum? Violet could give some valuable input on the creative process, and she could use her gum-chewing fame to promote the product. On top of being known for his appetite, Augustus Gloop's father is the most prominent butcher in Drusselheim. Perhaps Wonka was looking to expand to a more international market, or invest in foods unrelated to chocolate. Lastly, I think Wonka chose Charlie Buckets to be the heart of the company. His rags to riches story would inspire and give the big business some emotional capital. He also comes from a frugal family, so he knows how to be efficient with finances. It is important to note that Charlie is the only one who "wins" in the end, so although Wonka's original intent was to branch out to four new markets, Charlie's good heart was the end goal for Wonka's company vision.

I noticed the strangest behavior coming from Hagrid. I started paying more attention to the actions, statements, and inconsistencies in Hagrid and realized almost every move taken somehow aided Voldemort. Is this theory given entirely seriously? Definitely not. I still find it to be intriguing given the amount of evidence which supports the conclusion that Hagrid is one of the top servants of Voldemort.

How did Hagrid even know where to collect Harry? We know James and Lily were in hiding using the Fidelius Charm. This charm prevents any person except those told by the Secret Keeper (Wormtail) from knowing where the Potters were, nor could anyone but Wormtail tell someone else. It is possible that Dumbledore tells Hagrid where to go immediately after the Potters are killed, but the necessary conclusion in that case is that Hagrid is capable of high-level magic, as well as creating the question of how Dumbledore knew of the Potters’ deaths. Given that Wormtail doesn’t die until Book 7, the much more straightforward conclusion is that Hagrid knew where to go in Book 1 is that Wormtail had let him in on the secret along with Voldemort.

We see Hagrid do two amazing things in his very first appearance: he uses a fairly powerful spell with a broken wand, and he uses it in retribution against the Muggle that is bothering him by hurting his Muggle son. This shows both Hagrid is more capable than he lets on, but also shows a blatant disregard for wizarding laws and the safety of Muggles.

Hagrid, always looking out for Voldemort’s interest, specifically purchased Harry the most conspicuous owl we ever see, which would be easy to track and observe, which is all the more suspicious given that he did so right after returning to the last known whereabouts of Voldemort’s other servant.

The true identity of Voldemort is a mystery only known to a few people. Who was around fifty years ago at Hogwarts who knew Tom Riddle aside from Dumbledore and Slughorn? Hagrid, who was on a first name basis with him. Hagrid is certainly aware Voldemort is Tom Riddle, the boy he knew. In the Diagon Alley chapter of Book 1, he told Harry that Voldemort was a Slytherin, and confirmed he went to Hogwarts years and years ago, something nobody else but Dumbledore or Slughorn know, tying Voldemort to Riddle.

Without Hagrid, Harry never would have been able to win the Triwizard Tournament. Hagrid pressured Harry to compete, gave him insider information, conspired, and cheated on his behalf. Only two people knowingly cheated for and contributed to Harry’s success: Crouch-Moody and Hagrid, who conspired together to do it. The end result is Harry being delivered into Voldemort’s trap, taking the Cup/Portkey to the graveyard and restoring Voldemort’s body.

After 13 years of hiding, how did Voldemort get his wand back? Priori Incantatem demonstrates that his last spell from this wand were the curses cast in the Potter residence, as well as the recent activity in preparation for the tournament, meaning nobody else used it from his disappearance to his resurrection. There were only a few people present immediately after the Potter murders who could have taken Voldemort’s wand.

Hagrid arrived first, and collected Harry to deliver to Dumbledore and the Dursleys. Sirius arrived second. Hagrid references to Dumbledore in the first chapter of Book 1 that he arrived before the place was swarming with Muggles. Nobody else made it to the scene before the Muggles and the Ministry but those two. If Sirius, the Muggles, or the Ministry collected the wand, it would not have ended up in his robes at the graveyard – it would have been snapped in half. A Death Eater had to have obtained the wand prior to its confiscation and likely destruction, and Hagrid is the only available option.

To test whether an acolyte was worthy of completing their training, the dojo will deny an acolyte the scroll at the end to test what kind of person they really are. If an acolyte had truly learned the art of balance and inner peace in addition to his physical training, he would have accepted the denial with humility. In doing so, the acolyte would then prove that he is perfect inside and out, and at that point, the master would then explain that it was just a test and grant him the scroll.

Tai Lung failed this test by reacting with anger and hatred. That was why he was never granted the scroll: not because he was not worthy, but because he proved himself unworthy. For all his prowess, tai lung failed the most important test in the end, the test of whether he could exercise his great power with great responsibility.

This was clearly hinted strongly by the movie by the fact that the scroll was empty.

It’s a well-worn idea that Predator is a film about masculinity. You have seven men each competing for alpha status, showboating their strength, stoicism, roughness and physical power. I’d like to go a step further. I’d like to suggest that the trials of the film are a test of masculinity, and that each man who dies does so in a way that mocks his masculine performance.

Hawkins. Scrawny, glasses-wearing radioman Hawkins is the first to die. Appropriately enough, he is the least successful in projecting his masculinity. He dies when he runs after Anna and catches the attention of the predator. Out of context, the scene almost resembles a rape – Hawkins chases Anna and wrestles her to the ground. But this dynamic is reversed when the predator runs him through, drags him on his back, strips him naked and disembowels him.

Blain. Blain’s not the weakest of the remaining crew, but he is certainly the showiest, with his enormous minigun. Blain has the most famous line outside of Arnie’s: when he’s shot in the arm, Ramirez rushes to his aid – “You’re bleeding, man!”. Blain’s having none of it: “I ain’t got time to bleed”. Indeed he doesn’t. When the predator fires a plasma bolt through Blain’s torso, the resulting wound is bloodless.

Mac. You’d think that if anyone can out-sneak the predator, it’s Mac, but the predator has him sussed fairly quickly. Sliding on his back, Mac suddenly sees a target on his wrist. It runs over his arm and head and – blam! Mac’s apparent madness makes his head his ‘weapon’. He’s just a little crazy, and that’s supposed to make him scary, but there’s no brain chemistry so unstable it can’t be met with a well-placed microwave pulse. So mocks the predator. Mac promises to ‘bleed’ Dillon ‘slowly’. Mac’s own death seems to be the slowest.

Dillon. Dillon greets Dutch with an arm wrestle, and he loses. This turns out to matter. Dillon has his arm lasered off and is shortly run through by the predator’s claws. This death is the most obviously telegraphed: it’s the same arm. In the former scene, the arm is brought to the ground as it desperately pushes back; in the latter, the arm falls to the ground firing its weapon impotently.

Ramirez. He’s the green beret who gets hit by the log trap, sent flying and landing in a crippled heap. He limps along for a little while before being unceremoniously shot in the neck. There’s a little ad-hoc addition to the original screenplay. When Blain boldly asserts he “ain’t got time to bleed”, Ramirez quips back: “Oh yeah? Have you got time to duck?”. Ramirez is later crippled by a fast-moving log to the chest that everyone else jumps under.

Billy. He acknowledges his fear, listens to his superstitious instincts and generally prefers to act rather than talk. He is granted the most noble death of all the soldiers: an off-screen fate that preserves his mystery and lets us imagine – or rather hope – he died bravely. But he dies all the same, because he chooses not to run. And that is the difference between him and Dutch. Running is how Schwarzenegger’s character survives. He runs and falls into the river, covering himself in mud. He backs into a corner, camouflaged thermally. He lets the predator chase him into a trap, which eventually proves the alien’s undoing.

There actually is a legitimate foundation for why “The High Ground” would be so important in that moment between those two duelists, allow me to explain.

They are dueling on scrap metal floating upon a lava river. Obi-Wan leaps from the raft to an embankment of volcanic gravel and turns back to Anakin, who is now stuck on the aforementioned lava river. Staying here is suicide, going over the Lavafall is death, that is no option. But there is this option: to jump over Obi-Wan. A once successful tactic that Anakin has heard doubtlessly many times.

During another duel between Maul and Obi-Wan Maul is overconfident, and lets Obi-Wan marinate in seeming hopelessness but in fact Obi-wan is gathering his strength. Using the force, he leaps out of the hole with a 15 foot vertical and summons his fallen master’s lightsaber. In midair, he ignites the green blade and bisects Maul as he lands, defeating the first. Pretty heroic, right? But do you think that’s how the story goes in Obi-Wan’s head every time he retells it? No, every time Obi-Wan retells that his mind can’t help but show him… alternate circumstances. Every time Obi-Wan replays that duel in his mind, he sees a new outcome. This time, Maul doesn’t turn around to face him, he simply turns his lightsaber around and impales Obi-Wan on it. The next, Obi-Wan’s bisecting attack doesn’t land and instead he has to continue the duel having spent all his stamina on that feat of Force conjuration.

He likely never confided in Anakin his fears of that movement’s failure. The most he ever said was probably that it was “brash” or “far to risky”, but Anakin was all too enraptured by the triumph of Good over Evil to listen.

So Obi-Wan turned to Anakin and said “It’s over, I have the High Ground” because he, just like Anakin now, had once been in a position where success requires a massive vertical leap over your opponent and he knew the risk that move entailed.

Obi-Wan begged Anakin “Don’t try it.”, but Anakin misinterpreted that plea. In his hatred and overconfidence, Anakin felt Obi-Wan’s fear and thought he had found the situation where he could best his master, and that his statement about the High Ground was simply a bluff! Unfortunately, Obi-Wan’s true fear was that the only way to survive that slope on Mustafar, the only hope for the Republic to live, was to make one of a million past nightmares reality.

So, at the beginning of the film, we see the protaganist, Mia, dump her drugs(presumably heroin) into the well. Since the cabin is in the middle of the woods, it can only be assumed that the well is the main source of water for the structure. There is no supernatural force acting upon the home, but instead, each character is reacting to the heroin in their system, ingested through the water. At the end of the film, only one character remains alive. Mia. This is, in part, due to the fact that she is a recovering addict and her system is used to the toxin.

The entire premise of the movie is that Bruce grew to hate God and then was given incredible powers to prove that being the almighty is harder than it looks.

But look at the situation objectively. Satan would see a much greater opportunity in a mortal growing to hate God. That would allow him to tempt and manipulate the person far more than normal. Not only that, but God is supposed to be omnipotent whereas the being that Bruce met had clear limitations (particularly related to free will).

The things that Bruce used his powers for also make me question if they came from God. He made a monkey crawl out of a guy's a** (then jump back in) and in a deleted scene, f*****g lit Even Baxter on FIRE with a look of pure maliciousness.

Bruce's abuse of his powers eventually caused^ the city to descend into absolute chaos. I just highly doubt that God would allow so many people to get hurt just because one single news anchor had a crisis of faith. The story makes more sense if you think of Morgan Freeman's character as an evil genie giving Bruce exactly what he wishes for and taking pleasure in the chaos that ensues.

When Casper was asked if he remembered his past he said no. The explanation for this is that when you die “life doesn’t matter that much anymore”. Which insinuates that that is the reason they don’t remember their lives after death.

The movie also explains that when if you become a ghost it means you have “unfinished business”. This is mentioned several times throughout the movie. Dr. James Harvey (certified) lost his wife and she did NOT become a ghost because, as she specifically states, she had no unfinished business (which is kind of rude, she died PREMATURELY for Gods sake).

If you become a ghost it means you have unfinished business that you must REMEMBER to complete in order to “cross over” i.e enter heaven. The fact that you naturally forget your life is cruel if getting to heaven means remembering it.

There’s another layer to this that I think is kind of overlooked.

Carrigan – is an a*****e and she honestly did deserve to die. She was the main antagonist. But that’s obvious. what about everyone else?

Dr. James Harvey: …kind of an a*****e. He moved his young grieving daughter around while he chased ghosts he didn’t even think existed under the facade of his late wife. Verdict? A*****e. (that’s why he became a ghost and his wife didn’t.)

Stinkie, Fatso, Stretch: They’re objectively a*****es. Dr. Harvey even asked them what their unfinished business was and they literally didn’t give a f**k. Verdict? A*****es.

Casper: Let’s be completely honest. Casper is an a*****e. The only reason the film happens is because Casper has a crush on a girl and is directly responsible for her having to….yet again move. This even prompted Kats father to have to make an ultimatum (never a good thing). Yeah he was just a kid when he died and it was very sad. But that doesn’t mean he was a good person.

Everyone who becomes a ghost is an a*****e and everyone who was presumably nice went straight to heaven despite surely having unfinished business.

Disclaimer: The following theory is based solely on evidence presented in the films and does not take any content from the books into consideration.

I always felt a little confused as to why Hermione Granger ended up with Ron Weasley. Throughout the series, Ron is (in Harry’s words), a right foul git to Hermione. Yet, despite being treated so horribly, Hermione decides “yeah, this sounds like a perfectly stable foundation for a relationship” and marries him.

In the Deathly Hallows part 2, Ron Weasley performs the Imperius curse on Bogrod, the goblin teller. Ron knew about the Imperius Curse from his father, Arthur Weasley. When did Ron practice using the spell to be good enough to charm a goblin teller?

Casting a spell in the wizarding world is not as simple as waving a wand and reading the incantation. The ability to successfully perform any spell comes the same way any good skill does – through practice and proper form.

He practiced it on Hermione Granger, which explains why she suddenly fell in love with him. Think about it. Ron was a jerk to Hermione across multiple films and then suddenly she’s all over him, being giddy around him, staying at his house, and calling him brilliant.

Why would Ron even want to mind-control Hermione? It’s because he’s jealous of her affection for Harry and is tired of being in Harry’s shadow. He’s the youngest of 5 older brothers who is always in trouble (and being howled at), constantly being teased by older siblings, and given embarrassing hand-me-down items. Know what would make it all worse? If one day, you met a boy who was stupidly famous, obscenely rich, ludicrously successful no matter what he did, and was always the center of everyone’s attention. And when you’re always in the shadow of your friend’s glory, you start becoming resentful and jealous.

The films have demonstrated Hermione to be a strong wizard, amazingly smart and incredibly skilled in a variety of subjects and skillsets. Normally, I would wager that Hermione would be able to resist the Imperius Curse. Except, Hermione is not always strong willed. In fact, when it comes to her friends, we’ve seen her succumb to their requests before.

When did it all happen? I believe, sometime during the Order of the Phoenix, Ron Weasley used the Imperius Curse on Hermione Granger. This is the time we start seeing Hermione hang around Ron a little more closely but she hasn’t quite started falling over him. That happens during the events of the Half-Blood Prince where Hermione is not only sleeping over at Ron’s house a few days before the start of the school year but she’s also looking at him more and becoming incredibly upset when he runs off with other girls.

But while I believe Ron bewitched Hermione, I don’t believe Hermione was under the influence the entire time. I believe Ron used the curse a few times in short bursts. Just long enough to start grooming Hermione so that she notices him instead of Harry. I also believe that the kiss Ron and Hermione share during the Deathly Hallows part 2 is not because of the Imperius Curse, but is a direct consequence of Hermione being cursed multiple times.