'80s Movie Fan Theories

At the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it's revealed that Judge Doom began his life as a cartoon, even though he now wants to kill other cartoons. However, the film never explicitly divulges what cartoon character Doom used to embody. Some viewers have noticed a string of Easter eggs strewn throughout the film that illuminate the Judge's original identity: the Pistol Packin' Possum. 

During an interrogation scene, there's a poster on the wall that depicts the Pistol Packin' Possum, a character with red eyes that look exactly like Judge Doom's at the end of the movie. The character also wields a super long cartoon gun, just like the one that Doom uses to kill R.K. Maroon. The biggest hint comes when Doom shoots Maroon, as his reflection perfectly overlays the poster for the Pistol Packin' Possum. 

There's an absolutely insane fan theory surrounding Labyrinth that makes the whole thing seem even creepier than it already is. It's theorized that a long time ago, Jareth was a sorcerer who fell in love with a brown haired woman named Sarah. He kidnapped her baby brother, and when the child began to grow too old, he turned it into a goblin.

Jareth never stopped kidnapping children, and every time he finds a young, brown haired woman named Sarah, he kidnaps her baby brother so that she is forced to come looking for them. Each time this happens, he turns the baby into a goblin, and the cycle repeats ad infinitum. 

It's time for people to admit that Spielberg/Lucas definitely share a fictional universe, and their work is connected by a certain extra-terrestrial. In The Phantom Menace, Lucas includes a shot of several E.T.'s — or Asogians — who hold a place in the Galactic Senate. 

The link between worlds predates the prequel trilogy. In E.T., our main man uses the force to heal Elliot's finger after he cuts it on a saw blade, and makes Elliot's bike fly at the end of the movie. That's some serious Jedi stuff. 

After close analysis of the film Beetlejuice, Redditor /u/patrckhh20 realized that the ghost with the most isn't actually a ghost. Instead, he's a living person who somehow found his way into the land of the dead. There's a ton of evidence to support this, but the most obvious clue is that when Betelgeuse is eaten by a sandworm at the end of the movie, he winds up in the waiting room for the afterlife. Why would be there if he was already dead?

Whenever Adam and Barbara want to take a trip to the afterlife, all they have to do is draw a door on a wall, and they never have to sit in the waiting room (since they're dead). This can only mean that Betelgeuse is very much alive up until the film's conclusion. 

Redditor /u/msgrmdma theorizes that if Indie had just shown Belloq the Ark, then the Frenchman would have been able to carry out his real plan. Given his doctoral status, it's possible that Belloq knew that whoever opened the Ark of the Covenant would be destroyed by God's light. The theory suggests that he wanted the Ark delivered to Hitler. If Hitler had opened the Ark, his face would have melted, and World War II would have ended before it began. 

Redditor /u/AngrySpock believes that Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is more than just a lark about two dopes traveling through time; this user argues that it's an exercise in non-linear thinking. They posit that when Rufus sets up the ticking clock for Bill and Ted at the Circle K, he's telling them that they need to think outside the box with regards to normal time. 

The Redditor writes, "While ostensibly Rufus got involved to help them pass their report, his real impact is helping Bill & Ted start down the path of exploring what Q called the 'unknown possibilities of existence.'"