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  • IntroWhen it comes to Disney movies, people usually fall into two groups: those who think

  • that the studio releases nothing but family-friendly adventures and important lessons, and those

  • who see suspicious jokes, messages, or meanings below the surface. The studio will never confirm

  • or deny just how many outlandish fan theories actually do have some truth to them, but the

  • ideas alone are worth investigating. Here are Screen Rant's 10 Movie Theories That Completely

  • Change Disney Films.

  • Toy Story

  • Most of the series is spent following the toys of Toy Story, but their owner, Andy,

  • is just as important. But the adventures he shares with his childhood toys - and the need

  • to give them up as he gets older - may run in his family. In Toy Story 2, fans found

  • out that Jessie was originally owned by a girl named Emily, before she was given away.

  • But some fans have claimed that Pixar makes it perfectly clear that Emily is really Andy's

  • mom. In the first story, Andy is playing with Woody while wearing Jessie's hat - the same

  • one Emily played with when she was younger. Since 30 years have passed since Emily gave

  • her up, it makes Andy's mom the right age, and delivers a happy ending to Jessie's story

  • that fans never even noticed.

  • Belle & Jane

  • It's obvious that the leading ladies of Beauty & The Beast and Tarzan have plenty in common:

  • their hair, fair features, love of the color yellow, and a knack for taming wild men. But

  • what if those similarities aren't just coincidence? When the gorillas are trashing Jane and her

  • father's camp, the teapot set from Beauty & The Beast is visible - the one that Mrs.

  • Potts and Chip were cursed to remain until The Beast was loved. So, did Jane bring a

  • French relative's china on her trip? Or is it all from a shared family set? The time

  • periods align, since the Eiffel Tower in Beauty & The Beast proves the movie is more modern

  • than you would think. If it isn't, could Jane be the grand daughter of Belle and the Beast?

  • We'll let the fans decide.

  • Aladdin

  • The tale of a prince in diguise and magical wishes is narrated by Genie, but what if the

  • story isn't set in Agrabah centuries in the past? What if it's actually set thousands

  • of years in the future? When he's first released, Genie claims that he's been imprisoned in

  • the lamp for thousands of years. So how does he know to make jokes about modern movies

  • and celebrities? Believe it or not, some fans believe Genie was trapped in our time, and

  • waited ten thousand years, as the world advanced, and a world-ending disaster set mankind back

  • by millennia. It's a wild theory, and there's no evidence, right? Well, the modern stop

  • signs buried in the sand of the companion video game might actually back this theory

  • up

  • Brave Boo

  • There's no character more adorable than Boo, the little girl who refused to be scared by

  • the stars of Monsters, Inc. And even though she wound up back at home in the end, leaving

  • her best friend behind cut deep. So what if she refused to give up looking for him as

  • she got older? One fan theory asks if the teleporting-door technology used in Monsters,

  • Inc isn't just moving monsters through space - but time, as well. How Boo figured it out

  • is a mystery, but the theory claims that she picked up plenty of magic along the way, eventually

  • landing in the forest of Brave. There she grew old, carving pictures of Sully and the

  • Pizza Planet truck. When Merrida comes to ask for help, she escapes the only way she

  • knows how: by traveling across time and space using a simple door.

  • Up, Up, And Away

  • No Pixar fan will forget the opening scenes of Up, following Carl Fredericksen fall in

  • love, grow old, and eventually lose his wife. Living alone, it's only a matter of time until

  • Carl's temper gets him committed. But instead, he escapes to see the world using thousands

  • of balloons tied to his house. Or does he? It's too sad to believe, but some fans think

  • Carl actually died the night before he was headed to Shady Oaks, and the adventure is

  • his journey to the afterlife. We don't know if that's an even more poetic look at the

  • movie, or just doubling down on the tears.

  • Wreck-it Ralph

  • As entertaining as the classic game characters may be, it was Calhoun from Hero's Duty who

  • stole the show. And she came with a tragic backstory, too: seeing the man of her dreams

  • eaten by a Cy-bug just seconds before they would have been married. She's still a soldier,

  • and took her anger out on the bug right then and there. But wait - Cy-bugs become the

  • things they eat: whether it's a gun, candy, or an actual person. It didn't take long for

  • fans to realize that the Cy-bug that killed Calhoun's fiance actually became him seconds

  • later - forcing her to kill the twisted, insectoid murderer version of him. And that puts a completely

  • different spin on the rest of her story - not to mention a more satisfying ending.

  • Snow White Gets Tangled?

  • The Evil Queen's name says it all in Disney's classic Snow White, when her need to be the

  • most beautiful woman in her kingdom leads her up against the lovely Snow White. She

  • takes the form of an ugly old woman, and sets out to deceive the girl with false promises.

  • Once Disney fans realized that the Evil Queen actually looks a lot like Gothel from Tangled,

  • they also noticed that they're both obsessed with staying young and beautiful, and taking

  • advantage of young girls to make it happen. So what if they're the same woman? Having

  • failed to get the job done with one Disney princess, the Queen just moved onto the next?

  • It's not as exciting a theory as some, but helps link Disney's oldest movie to one of

  • its most recent hits.

  • Toy Story 3

  • Out of all the Disney theories, people claiming that Toy Story 3 is just one massive analogy

  • for the Nazi's treatment of Jewish citizens seems hard to believe. But even if the movie

  • isn't as clear a reference as some fans claim, the actual plot is hard to ignore. First,

  • the toys are abandoned by their guardians, then gathered up and sent to a horrible place

  • where they're regularly abused, and eventually wind up inches away from death - before allies

  • from a faraway land show up to literally pull them out of the fire. They even end up at

  • a new home, where toys like them are protected. That may just be a universal story lived through

  • by all kinds of people throughout history, but given the parallels, this theory isn't

  • going away any time soon.

  • The Lion King

  • When the Lion King was released, some people started pointing out that the similarities

  • with a popular Shakespeare story were too obvious. The Lion King would basically be

  • Hamletwith animals. If we look at the details, this theory starts making a lot of

  • sense. In Hamlet, the King is killed by Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle, but the circumstances of

  • his death are kept secret. Hamlet has two goofy friends named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

  • and ends up getting revenge for his father’s death by stabbing his uncle and forcing him

  • to drink poisonous wine. Even if it’s heavily influenced by the play, The Lion King remains

  • one of the best animated films in history.

  • The Frozen Theory

  • Frozen is one of the most celebrated Disney films of the last 10 years and it’s filled

  • with references from other Disney movies. You probably heard about this one before since

  • we covered it in detail in our documentary entitledThe Secret Relations Between Disney

  • Movie Princesses”, but it’s worth mentioning again. The theory explores how Anna & Elsa

  • might be related to Rapunzel, Cinderella and Ariel to name a few, but the bombshell comes

  • when there is a possible link to another Disney characterWhen Anna and Elsa’s parents

  • leave on their ship and never come back, the creators of Frozen gave people a clue when

  • they said on Reddit that the parents shipwreck on an island and have a child that ends up

  • getting raised by gorillasTarzan, making him Anna & Elsa’s long lost brother... Make

  • sure you check out our documentary by clicking on the link for more details on this amazing

  • theory!

  • Those are some of our favorite theories about the real meaning of hit Disney movies, but

  • which ones have we missed? Let us know in the comments, and remember to subscribe for

  • more videos like this one. Thanks!

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