Dark and Disturbing Cartoon Theories

[LoliGirl]

There's also the theory that the entire world of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is merely the imagination of a deranged human girl in an insane asylum named Pinkamena Diane Pie (in other words, Pinkie Pie), as her way of coping. Pinkie Pie is simply a split personality of this girl, whom is incarcerated for murdering her parents and friends because her dolls told her to, think about the fanfic "Cupcakes" for a minute, then make the infamous grimdark fanfic take place in the real world with humans, because that's basically what this theroy it to an extent.

-Ahem- Wrong Theory. Heres the real theory.

You all have probably know about the new generation of My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. It has, for one reason or another, become an overnight sensation. Whether or not you like the show yourself, you have to admit that its success is impressive.
However, it raises a question. Lauren Faust has worked on other popular shows, and has been working on her own line of toys, The Galaxy Girls. How did she wind up creating the re-make of some 80’s toy commercial instead of working on her own show ideas? It could be that she’s just nostalgic about her childhood MLP toys or something, but even then, what artist wouldn’t rather work on their own ideas?

I read this news story a few years ago. It was about 6 girls who all went to the same school, and died on the same day, November 7th, 2004. A friend of mine from N.C. sent me the article from a small local newspaper. I forgot about it until I was watching a few episodes of MLP and realized the main characters are surprisingly similar to the girls who died. I decided to look for that article again. The paper had either gotten shut down or I had misremembered the name, so I tried tracking down my old World of Warcraft buddy and asked him for the article. Turned out he happened to have the file saved to his computer, and I was right! There’s a definite connection here!

The first girl, named Samantha Gales, was obviously the inspiration for Fluttershy. A shy, introverted girl, what her classmates didn’t know was that she was constantly abused at home by her mother and stepfather. Her mother conceived her at age 15, and she blamed poor Samantha for ruining her life. This made Samantha self-conscious. When her stepfather moved in, this made the neglect worsen. Her stepfather never liked having to take care of Samantha when her mother was away, so he would lock her in the basement and leave her, sometimes for a whole day. Her mother tolerated this, and, as she grew, would hit Samantha for talking out of turn. When her half-sister was born, the abuse became considerably worse. She would be starved, forced to sleep outside, and sometimes beaten outright. Because she dressed in shabby clothes and had low self-esteem, she was often picked on by other kids at school. Her only friends were animals she would rescue, which her family would make her get rid of. She committed suicide by overdosing on valium.

The second, named Janice Walters, was always one of the popular girls. She was rich, smart, beautiful, and seemed to live the charmed life. However, her parents argued constantly and were really only together for appearances. She was held up to a high standard, which made her a perfectionist. She wanted to be a designer and live in Paris, but her parents wanted her to remain in Carolina and marry a proper man, one of good breeding and high income. For the most part, her parents ignored her. Her parents’ only concern was appearing rich and of high social standing, but in reality, her mother married her father because of money, and since he had accumulated so much debt, they had been losing money, fast. This is what got her interested in fashion initially, since she started making her own fashionable clothes to maintain the appearance of wealth. She died in a car crash, when her mother and father got into another argument over money while he was driving. Her neck was snapped on impact and she died instantly. She was clearly the inspiration for Rarity.

Then there was Alexandra Matthews. Alex was a competitive girl. She always sought to be the best at the best, especially at sports, track in particular. Her father always wanted a boy, and since her mother was declared incapable of having another child, he decided to raise her as if she was his son. In the end though, she loved her mother and father, and was more than happy to play sports with her father. She excelled at them, even. This made her popular, and by the time she was in high school, was being sought out by athletic scouts from Colleges all over the country. This made her try even harder. She had always wanted to compete in the Olympics. However, when she was 15, her mother, who had been told she could never have another child, had a son. After that, her parents didn’t pay very much attention to her, which made her more determined to succeed. She ended up pushing herself so hard at track, she neglected her friends, her grades, and even her personal health. At one point, she became so desperate, she started taking steroids. What her and her family didn’t know was that she had a minor heart condition that the steroids worsened. Since she was pushing herself so hard physically as well, she ended up collapsing during a match due to a heart complication. She died in the hospital, a few days later. In the show, Rainbow Dash seems the most similar.

The girl most similar to Applejack, Jamie Sanders, was a farm girl, just like the character based off of her. What the show didn’t include was that her farm was run down, and her family always struggling with money. She often times worked odd jobs under the table to try and help to support her family. She had many brothers and sisters, and she was the second, which meant it was up to her and her brother to take care of the “youngins”. This meant she didn’t have enough time to hang out with friends or take any extracurricular activities, or even do her homework on most nights. She had an aunt, whom her family from Manhattan was based off, who kept offering to send money to support her mother and father, but they were proud and always refused. That is until her father died from a heart attack in 2001. Her mother followed shortly after, having killed herself when she couldn’t handle the pressure of taking care of all the children. They were taken in by their then senile grandma, who was incapable of truly take care of them. Jamie herself often times helped out with other family’s yard work to keep her family afloat. She died when she fell into a wood chipper.

Pinkie Pie’s inspiration probably has the saddest story. Katherine Jackson was a foster child and moved from home to home. Her birth father killed her mother and himself in a fit of rage when she was 5, and she could never quite settle into a good home. Some of the foster families who would take her in were merely interested in the financial support adopting a child would bring, and would refuse to feed or cloth her. Even when she was in a nice home with a good family, the old memories still haunted her, breaking her fragile sanity into a million pieces. She would have nightmares of her mother’s screaming and bleeding and her father screaming for her, claiming to be after her next. By the time she was in high school, she completely snapped. She started to hallucinate and act out in class. Many of the other kids and even teachers assumed she was merely hyperactive and was trying to be funny. She would often times paint and draw and write about fantastical things, and dressed in over the top clothing. All the while her condition was getting worse and worse, the voices and images becoming more realistic and more demanding. She died when she jumped off a building, one of the voices having told her she could fly. What makes that last fact even more chilling is that Lauren originally designed Pinkie Pie to be a pegasus, as seen in her early development sketches.

The last, Twilight Sparkle’s inspiration, was an A student by the name of Cynthia Little. She was held up to a high standard from a young age. Her older brother was always getting awards for academic and athletic achievement, and she was held up to the same high standard. She ended up neglecting other facets of her life in order to make sure she got the best grades. For a while, this worked. Her parents were proud of her accomplishments and bragged to their friends about having not just one genius child, but two. That is until a local private academy for the gifted started to become interested in her, among several other advanced students. She knew that this would be the best opportunity she could have to prove herself as the perfect child. But the pressure was high. She knew that there were limited spots for new students, and she knew that there would be a test and an essay required to get in. So she became a little desperate. She studied to the point where she would hardly eat, and never sleep. As the test closed in, she panicked, and she opted to find an essay online to copy, and during the test resorted to cheating. When she was caught, her parents were horrified. She sank into a deep depression, and eventually hung herself to save herself the shame of being an imperfect daughter.

You might be wondering now why Lauren Faust would be inspired to make a sweet children’s show inspired by such depressing events. Perhaps she felt some odd need to give the girls closure, or perhaps to tell their stories in any way she could. Think about it. In the show, Fluttershy is able to take care of the animals she adores, Rarity is a successful designer with loving parents, Rainbow Dash is in fact a great athlete, Applejack has a successful farm, Pinkie Pie is happy with not a care in the world, and Twilight Sparkle was accepted into an exclusive school. Maybe, just maybe, she wanted to give the spirits of these girls what the always wanted.

And I think they’re happy.

 

[Fair Verona]

If the cast of Charlie Brown had grown up, each of them would have indeed turned into very dark adults.
Linus would end up getting Sally pregnant in their teens, but Sally would not be mature enough to take care of the baby, and do to her own materialism and need for approval would opt our and decide to get an abortion. Linus would then carry around the blanket he would have given to his newborn child.
Lucy would grow up to be a sociopath. Everything she would do would be for her own gain. She would become a therapist to be able to revel in each others pain, and even make it worse by making them pay.
Charlotte Braun was killed early in childhood. (as implied by the creator himself)
Snoopy would eventually have to get put down, perhaps for biting his master. Woodstock will then sit on the dog house, not understanding his friend will never return.
Schroeder would never truly end up making his career in music. Being weighed down by his own genius, he would turn to a bitter life of alcoholism and reclusiveness.
Then of course, there's Charlie Brown. But there won't be much to tell, because he will kill himself even before adulthood. His friends are cruel and his parents aren't even there to comfort him. It should come to no surprise that this is his fate.

 

[Orion]

Here's that EE'nE Theory the first post mentions.

Spoiler

We hadn’t always been here. But the neighborhood has. Even before it was a neighborhood on earth this one had been here. Here for those that would be lost on those cursed grounds, here for those who would die long before their real life ever truly began, here for those who never really wanted to grow up. We come from different times and we come from different lives, but one thing remains true of all of us. We lived on the earthly realm of the neighborhood at some point in our lives and died long before our time was supposed to come. We don’t remember much of our lives in the cul-de-sac since the last member of our group joined us and certainly we won’t remember now when the next spirit comes, but here is what we do know:

Rolf was the first to come here. Unlike most of us he was born in far off lands and even in the afterlife hasn’t lost the touch of his old world upbringing. He lived in the neighborhood before it was developed. The son of a shepherd, he and the rest of his family came to start a farm on the lands that would soon turn into the place we would all eventually reside in. He died in 1903. While tending to the family’s animals, the bull broke loose from its pen and in Rolf’s efforts to stop the beast he was trampled to death. That is why even though he brought many of his family’s livestock with him in spirit he chose not to bring the cattle along. He continues to go about the farms business on a daily basis, but is more than happy to occasionally neglect them to play with the other children of the neighborhood.

Jonny was always the lonely child. In fact Rolf actually became his first human friend ever when he came to the cul-de-sac after his death. His parents moved onto the grounds of Rolf’s former farm not long after his death. With no other children around and no fieldwork to take up his time as it did Rolf’s, Jonny drew into his own mind to a great extent. From there, Plank was born. Together they wandered about the country side climbing trees and getting themselves in trouble. Sadly this didn’t last forever as a few years later Jonny became bedridden with illness. In 1922 he died after a long battle with tuberculosis. He saw his imaginary friend plank standing by him to his last breath. Even now in the afterlife without the countryside to play in Jonny still wastes much of his time frolicking through the backyards and streets.

Eddy was the next to come. Eddy was born in New York City but moved to the neighborhood in 1932, just as the Great Depression was hitting full swing. The neighborhood while still different was beginning to take form from the fields of its past as families moved in and split up the lands that had once belonged to Rolf’s family. Always a schemer, Eddy looked to do anything to bring some comfort to his very bare family life even if it cost him the friendship of others. Eddy died in 1939 after one of his grand plans to swindle a sap backfired. He drowned trying to cross the local river after trying to run away from the angry kids that he had tried to deceive. Even in the afterlife he keeps chasing after the almighty dollar.

Sarah and Ed came together not too long after that. By the late 40’s the cul-de-sac had already nearly taken its final form as one of the preplanned developments that became popular in the post war era. As brother and sister growing up in the chaos of World War II, they both had various ways of escaping their lives as children of a dead GI and a working mother. Sarah became enraged and controlling as she sought to make sure that everyone around her knew that she was in charge, all in an attempt to copy off of her view of the hustle and bustle of her often working mother. Ed on the other hand went about it in a different way. He just shut it out entirely, in fact he shut out nearly everyone and everything in the world entirely becoming what appeared to be a complete idiot. Ed chose instead to become completely involved in the monster movies and comic books that began to pop up after the war had ended. It wasn’t too long after this that, in 1953, Ed and Sarah died in a car wreck as their mother was taking them to visit their grandparents.

Nazz came a time after the brother and sister. Nazz was a flower child, born to a pair of hippies turned establishment in the late 60’s. She was a naturally beautiful girl that had always had a way with boys and men alike. She lived life on a whim and would often go about flirting and playing without any intentions. She died in possibly the most horrible way of any children in the neighborhood. In the summer of ’79 a serial killer, who had broken out of a local asylum, had slipped into her house in the dead of night and raped and killed her along with her entire family. In the trauma of these events she in a way similar to Ed shut out the world entirely and forgot of her parents and siblings, which is why in the afterlife she doesn’t ever receive demands from the non-existent parents unlike many of the others. This gives her much more time to lounge around and party as she often does.

It didn’t take too long before Edd joined the rest of the neighborhood. He was the child of two highly controlling professionals in the age of greed that, despite their constant absence, dominated his life. As such Edd became quite the intellectual and a rather meek and shy figure. Always the curious type, he loved to experiment when given the time away from school and the constant chores of his parents. This would lead to his untimely demise in 1986, as a gas leak combined with a Bunsen burner from one of his experiments tore him and his house to pieces. Being the timid and subservient type, between various misadventures, Edd continued to follow the written orders of his parents long after his death.

Kevin was the next to join the group. He was born to the day of Edd’s death and is in many ways his polar opposite. Kevin came from a broken home and developed a bold personality. In life he was the cynical and angry and took it out on many of the other children. His abusive father would rarely pay him any attention in life and would end up bringing about the end of it. In a drunken rage his father beat him after Kevin attempted to stand up to him. He died on the way to the hospital in the winter of 1999. His father spent the rest of his life in prison. In the afterlife Kevin changed his perception to the opposite of what his life really was, with a distant father who would shower him with gifts, however he continued to maintain his bullying even in death.

Jimmy was the last to come to the cul-de-sac. He died in 2000 not long after moving into the house that Kevin’s father had once lived in. He had had leukemia since he was barely old enough to walk. As such, he was always a very sickly child and due to his over protective parents he never really got to be around other children. He lived his days out in a small bedroom completely neglected by the outside world. Jimmy lingered for quite some time in a state of near death, but in the end finally caved into the suffering of his life long illness.

The Kanker sisters were different from any other denizens of the cul-de-sac. They were never of the earthly plane of existence. Instead they are the children of demons not too dissimilar from the succubae of human lore. They seem to possess abilities impossible by the standards of the others, such as the ability to appear nearly anywhere instantly. They were sent from hell to torment the already tortured souls of the neighborhood. Surprisingly they are attracted to the Eds for unknown reasons, although it is speculated that they are the weakest willed members of the neighborhood and are seen as easy targets by them. Despite that they are universally loathed and often feared by everyone including the Eds.

 

[SSJ_Jup81]

Has anyone here heard some of these? They are basically a type of "Wild Mass Guessing" that involve grimdark therories about certain cartoon, anime, and video game series. Here's a few I found that were very interesting:

There’s a theory that interprets Ed, Edd and Eddy’s entire cast of kids as all being dead and living in a purgatory of an eternal childhood cycle (originally an eternal summer, but then they started going to school), thusly the complete lack of any adults in the purgatory. They’re are a number of explanations for their deaths, ranging from basic deaths such as an explosion due to a gas-leak in the neighborhood, to apocalyptic ones such as nuclear explosion or the spread of a deadly disease that killed most of middle-America. A related theory suggests that the kids in the cul-de-sac are dead children from the neighborhood, each from different time periods (Johnny and Rolf from the 40’s, Kevin from the 90’s, Naz from the 60’s, Jimmy from the 00’s, and so on).

That's interesting and disturbing, but the only prob is that there was an ep where we see Ed and Eddy's parents, although it was just their hands pulling them into the house. There was also an episode where Edd snapped and called all the parents of the cul-de-sac to come home and the kids started to panic. lol

 

[Drakon]

There's one that I heard about Rugrats:

Grandpa Boris and Grandma Minka are Holocaust survivors. They're old enough to have lived through WWII (which exists in this 'verse) and they're Eastern European Jews.

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Spinning of the MLP ones,

There's a fic called MLP Laboratories where the "ponies" are synthetic organisms (think humans twisted into pseudo-equine quadrupedal form) and are trapped in a laboratory where they're harvested for organs and other biological material. They are then drugged into hallucinating Equestria.

A word of warning, the fic is extremely creepy. I couldn't watch MLP:FiM for a week after reading it.

Another dark MLP guess has the whole show be the product of a mentally ill artist, Tara Muschel, who was abused by her mother. As a result, Tara basically become Twilight Sparkle after getting consumed by her delusions. She was in a mental institution in a catatonic state for the entire time.

 

[Niji]

WARNING: YU-GI-OH! SPOILERS!!!!

Spoiler

Yugi was miserable because he was timid and awkward. He was on the drug Alprazolam (for his social anxiety), but he decided to take more to escape his timid disposition. While on more Alprazolam, Joey, Tristan, and Tea, became his friends because he was cool, and then they wanted some of his drugs. Bakura also wanted his Alprazolam to make him brave, so Yugi let him. They suffered from a side effect of the drug, hallucinations, but they discovered that it made the monsters on Yugi's Duel Monsters cards seem real. The confidence and terror that Yugi got from the drug improved his skill, but another side effect he got was memory loss, so he couldn't remember what happened, later. Yugi gave drugs to Kaiba, to show him how much fun it was to play while high, but then Kaiba suffered from another of the side effects, hostility. Bakura suffered even worse than Kaiba and he began stealing so he could afford more drugs. Then word got out about using hallucinogens while dueling.
When Yugi dueled Pegasus, Pegasus showed Yugi how to play a "Shadow Game." The players overdosed on Alprazolam, causing an extreme hallucination in which the loser of the fight is killed. The dose is so powerful that the player really dies. Yugi's shallow breathing and dizziness, were really just symptoms of an Alprazolam overdose.
Dartz was a drug dealer who ruined people's lives so that they would buy drugs from them. Yugi helped both him and Marik with their addictions. Marik had been a drug addict since he was ten because of his abusive father. He killed his father while high and then became paranoid that when he took drugs, another person took over. He learned about shadow games and thought that Yugi was the one who had been controlling him with drugs. Bakura went to rehab after having a similar experience where he felt as if a hostile person was controlling him, and quit drugs.
Yugi over-over dosed one day and had a hallucination that Bakura became a monster. While Yugi was hallucinating, he murdered Bakura. Yugi was devastated, and decided to quit drugs. While suffering from withdraw, he hallucinated that he was fighting his confident alter ego. When his other self died, he realized that he had been taking such high doses that quitting would kill him, and it did.

 

[joshprebish12]

i heard this the winnie the pooh characters all have a medical disorder
Christopher Robin: Schizophrenia(this is when there is a malfunction in the perception of reality which is certainly evident in Christopher having hallucinations where he imagines his stuffed toys are alive)
Winnie The Pooh: Eating Disorder (though you may not think of this as a mental disorder, the cause of it is Pooh’s low self esteem which is psychological resulting in his excessive need for honey)
Piglet: Panophobia – (a mental condition where you fear everything. Piglet gets overly-nervous several times and this is apparent in the way his ears subtly twitch.)
Tigger: ADHD – (condition of the brain which results in hyperactivity and trouble paying attention)
Rabbit: OCD – (an anxiety disorder in which the person suffers from obsessive thoughts and compulsive tendencies. These can be seen in Rabbit having uncontrollable actions such as cleaning and, basically, being a “neat freak” but to an extreme level)
Owl:Narcissistic Personality Disorder – (being excessively preoccupied with themselves. Owl believes that he is the most clever animal in the wood, boasting how he has brains whilst “the others have fluff”)
Eeyore: Depression – (mental state characterised by a dejected and gloomy feeling surrounding them and a lack of activity. I hope no explanation is needed for how this relates to Eeyore)

 

[Twinmold]

Adventure Time's world is actually a post-apo-oh wait.

 

[Chespingamer26]

I have begun to realize the dark secrets within the horrors of a show I used to watch with my little niece and nephew. Dora the Explorer.

It all makes sense now, in a world where anything is anthropomorphic animals, buildings, even objects. Kleptomaniac foxes run wild. Dangerous rivers, mountains and cliffs are everywhere, and you "Have" to cross or climb them just to get to the darn grocery store! No "walking around" or stuff like that.
There is no safety in this world, you have rely on your wits and strength just to survive.

Which is why Dora and Boots always go off somewhere with no parent supervision despite they're only 4 years old. They're constantly getting into traps, and dangers, and climbing mountains and such. It's because their parents are forced to toughen them up in order to survive. It's the rule that world lives by.

And this proves I have no life lol

 

[Niji]

I guess South Park sort of counts as a cartoon:sweatlol:. So, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman were best friends with Kenny as young children. Then, they were the witnesses to his gruesome and untimely death:ksmile:. After he died, they lost their grip on reality and were plagued with hallucinations. Sometimes, they were just of normal Kenny. They also had many which were exaggerations of the disaster that killed Kenny, which resulted in Kenny dying in various horrible ways:lol:. They were forced to relive twisted variations of Kenny's death over and over. Other than the hallucinations causing Stan to become a hoarder, Cartman to play with dolls and develop an eating disorder, and them all to become at least somewhat insane, after time they became used to living in their own reality.

 

[Chespingamer26]

I guess South Park sort of counts as a cartoon

It's made with flash, same with the new My Little Pony. So if it counts as a cartoon, South Park definitely does.

 

[Duck of Jupiter]

Eh, I noticed some effy things in Metal Fight Beyblade.

1.) Benkei Hanawa: He has an unhealthy obsession with Kyouya. Also, I noticed that he only overeats when he is depressed, usually when Kyouya is away. Bullemia, anyone?

2.) Tsubasa: Very bipolar. In Metal Masters, his "dark side" is awakened, and several scenes are shown depicting "Evil Tsubasa" tempting "Good Tsubasa", with "Good Tsubasa" fighting back. Some of his dark side's temptations got so alluring that it almost seemed as if "Evil Tsubasa" was seducing "Good Tsubasa".

3.) Damian: His Bey is Hades Kerbecs, Hell Kerbecs in the Japanese. Honestly, in a kids' show?

3.) Jack: He's an artist. I get that. But does he really need to wear blue lipstick and pink hair? (I love the guy anyway.)

4.) Ryuuga: He killed three people. Gingka brought them back to life with his Beyspirit. In a kids' show.

5.) Rago: He killed Ryuuga. Then he attacked an innocent, harmless girl. She didn't even have a Bey.

...Also, there's the fact that none of them have any parents except for Gingka Hagane (Ryo Hagane) and Madoka Amano (unnamed). What on the earth are they doing without parents?!?

 

[testyjester420]

fosters home for imaginary friends

madame foster had "money in the bank" and decided to open her mansion to young people. where they are free to play with there imaginary friends and where they can ultimately leave them behind when they grow out of them. Mac for instance is rather neglected at home so he made blu but he couldnt stay at home with no parents there. so he goes to fosters home all day so that he can be supervised and play with blu. frankie helps out around the place by telling new young people about the old friends that had been left behind so their imaginations could be free to roam and play as they wish which explains why their are so many imaginary friends but remarkebly few actual people there. Goo is always there because she is hyperactive and is always making new imaginary friends her and mac play with their imaginary friends with eachother in this big empty mansion. frankie is constantly changing out silverware and such because shes helping the kids with believing in there imaginations. i think this show is based on and old rich lady who is trying to do something good for the youth of the community and get a little company at the same time as her clock is running out and teaching frankie that her imagination isnt a bad thing.

 

[John Understands]

ill just cerate 1 for te luls

so as it turnz out spoengbeob iz a zombi nnd squdwiard is a gost bnd patirtkc is a zombiii alzo

lol

 

[Artemis117]

fosters home for imaginary friends

madame foster had "money in the bank" and decided to open her mansion to young people. where they are free to play with there imaginary friends and where they can ultimately leave them behind when they grow out of them. Mac for instance is rather neglected at home so he made blu but he couldnt stay at home with no parents there. so he goes to fosters home all day so that he can be supervised and play with blu. frankie helps out around the place by telling new young people about the old friends that had been left behind so their imaginations could be free to roam and play as they wish which explains why their are so many imaginary friends but remarkebly few actual people there. Goo is always there because she is hyperactive and is always making new imaginary friends her and mac play with their imaginary friends with eachother in this big empty mansion. frankie is constantly changing out silverware and such because shes helping the kids with believing in there imaginations. i think this show is based on and old rich lady who is trying to do something good for the youth of the community and get a little company at the same time as her clock is running out and teaching frankie that her imagination isnt a bad thing.

Close, but not quite. Frankie is Madam Foster's imaginary friend. Check out their outfits and hairstyles....

 

[Sith Droideka]

Alright, I've got one:

All those cartoon characters you know and love? All those cartoon worlds you wish (or don't wish) you could be in? They're all the product of some corporation trying to make some money, and if a show doesn't do well enough financially (Samurai Jack), they'll cancel it. All those characters are just empty shells and drawings, animated by a computer or an artist or two who's only trying to support his or herself or family, and their voices come from disinterest actors who just need a job.

 

[Dolce]

Mod note: Just bumping this to say please try to stick to talking about actual theories rather than being too apathetic when posting.

 

[Icy Angel]

I know this one theory where it's not a theory at all- it is completely true.

In the show Danny Phantom, the show straight forward about the gruesome deaths and restless souls that haunt the earth now. Ember McLain's song despicts her death in a fire, as told by Butch Hartman himself. Dora had also died because of her brother and mother abusing her- she was pushed around by her dead brother even after she became a ghost.

 

[SquishyFace]

I just found this one on Google, it's about Courage the Cowardly Dog:

Courage is a normal dog, and he sees life through dog eyes. In this theory it is assumed that courage actually lives in a small town, instead of the middle of nowhere. But, having elderly caretakers, they are too unfit or lazy to take him outside. This means that everything outside the house is nothing to him since he's never seen it.

When there is a visitor to Courage's home, it appears very strange to Courage and he freaks out. He wants to protect his owners, and in many episodes he finds himself in a panic trying to do that. Which makes sense, because he's a dog and dogs want to protect.

But since hes not used to the normal outdoors, the visitors appear as monsters and are distorted to be more evil.

 

[Niji]

This isn't particularly dark, but according to one theory, Care Bears have subliminal Voodoo messages. Care Bears being similar to Carefours, the name of the district that's the heart of the Voodoo world. Care-a-Lot seems as if it could symbolize the holy city of Lwa, the idealized reflection of Carefour. Care Bears say, "Share until you care," as the Lwa want to share the bodies of their worshipers. Care Bears always want to be friends, just as the Lwa are referred to as "friends." Each Lwa has a Veve symbol representing it, as each Care Bear has a tummy symbol. Many of their symbols, names, or natures are very similar.

Alright, I've got one:

All those cartoon characters you know and love? All those cartoon worlds you wish (or don't wish) you could be in? They're all the product of some corporation trying to make some money, and if a show doesn't do well enough financially (Samurai Jack), they'll cancel it. All those characters are just empty shells and drawings, animated by a computer or an artist or two who's only trying to support his or herself or family, and their voices come from disinterest actors who just need a job.

These shows aren't made by corporations, they're made by artists who pitch their ideas to them. The company's are forced to cancel the shows if they don't have enough money to continue to run them. Oh, and yes every voice actor is just bored with their life and I dunno saying, "Hey, spending hours screaming myself hoarse in a recording studio will make me a quick buck." Artists skip meals and spend nights in their studios working. Sorry to nag about this, but I've gotten to know some people who work on shows like this very well, and if they didn't love it, they'd find a different way to make money. They genuinely loved their work, and put their all into it. Creating a show is much more than sitting on one's butt and waiting for the cash to roll in. Please be considerate of how much work it takes :\ .