I’m talking about a fan theory, that if true doesn’t drastically upend the fundamentals of the fiction it is set in.

Mine is that in the American Dad episode ‘Can I Be Frank With You’, that Snot’s uncle is actually just another Roger persona. He appears suddenly and conveniently to pitch a bizarre scheme, he loves hanging around with teen boys and doing drugs, and the very instant that the plan has a setback he kills himself out of sight of everyone else. That’s just Roger in a suit and glasses.

Edit: Ok, so, people are having trouble with the word “inconsequential”.

  • Nefara@lemmy.world
    221·
    6 days ago

    Terminator, the Matrix and Dune are all the same universe at different points in time.

    • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
      2·
      5 days ago

      I don’t buy this one for the single reason that time travel is never a thing in the Dune universe and their tech is astronomically better than the other two.

      • Nefara@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 days ago

        Not necessarily, people don’t travel through time in Dune but they do see through time, and Spice specifically enables humans to see the past and future. I can theorize that actually traveling into the past is something only intelligent machines were able to facilitate. It could also be a situation where the high tech solution (lasers) has already been countered (shields) so the low tech solution (swords) becomes the better weapon. It could also be by a mutual agreement, or simply lost tech.