Do you think Pixar pays attention to the Pixar theory? I mean surely they must know about it, by now. Do you think Pixar might have started adding little things to their movies to make sure they can fit into the theory somehow?
I’ve been thinking about where Luca and Turning Red might fall in the Pixar theory timeline. Now, you might think that Luca and Turning Red take place in different time periods, or at least in different decades. But, what if they take place at relatively the same time. And that time, was after Wall-E. Wait, how would that work? Read on after the break for my thoughts.
The easiest way to do this is to present a timeline. I’m going to center the timeline around when Humans return to Earth. So to keep things simple I’ll be using the following terms.
BR(Before Return): The time before humans return to Earth.
R0(The Return):The time when humans return.
AR(After Return) The time After the humans return.
Bare in mind a good portion of this timeline is going to be vague. Please bare with me.
??? BR: Around the time of Finding Nemo and FInding Dory. Industrial chemicals dumped into the ocean have an unexpected side effect. This causes sealife and various birds to become sentient.
??? BR: A build-up of garbage and chemicals in the environment makes Earth less and less habitable. Humanity leaves earth in colony ships created by Buy-N-Large to keep people safe until the planet becomes habitable again. Buy-N-Large secretly reprograms the ship A.I.s to never come back.
??? BR: With the end of the fishing industry, the population of sea life booms. Resources become more scare, leading to competition, which leads to growth and development, the process is drastically sped up by the industrial chemicals.
About a hundred years after humans left earth, early fish people begin forming into tribes to help and support each other. Tribes actively compete for thinning resources which leads to conflict. After decades of conflict and the loss of much life fish people become sick of fighting. The tribes sign a peace treaty and agree to share the remaining resources. This system works so well that the tribes unite permanently and begin to form civilization. This leads to a golden age and the height of fish people society.
R0: Humanity returns to the earth. At first it’s just the people of the Axiom. But, the Axiom is eventually able to contact other colony ships, warn them about their defective A.I.s or perhaps even shut the A.I.s down remotely.
50 AR: fifty years after the Axiom’s return, many more colony ships arrive on earth and the planet’s human population begins growing. After gathering historical data from the ship computers humans begin trying to recreate the old world, including reforming national borders. The fish don’t pay too much attention to this at first and focus on their own nation.
60 AR: The first seaside towns and boats are built. Fishing resumes. This causes humans to bump into fish people. The first reports of “Sea Monsters” begin to surface. After living in peace for generations, fish people just try to stay out of the way, but the human incursion into the ocean grows and humans and fish people clash, which ultimately leads to violent conflict. This ends the golden age as fish people begin abandoning towns and colonies closer to the surface and head for deeper water.
200 AR: Fish people civilization is all but splintered. Fish people population dwindles and fish people focus on small, well hidden villages. Around this time, as a form of self defense and due to exposure to human imagination, fish people develop the ability to disguise themselves as humans, but exposure to water disrupts the ability temporarily.
500AR: Contact between the sea and surface has almost completely ended. “Sea Monsters” have fallen into well-exaggerated legends. After hundreds of years of no contact, young fish people become curious about human civilization. This causes a pair of young fish people boys to disguise themselves and spend a summer in a human, seaside, town. At this point human society mostly resembles what it did before humans left, with a few small differences. Around this time humans start being born with the ability to change into alternate forms, caused by the remaining chemicals in the environment. Mei Lee is one of the first people born with this ability.
510AR:More and more people are born with the ability to change. Attempting to hide it finally becomes pointless. Eventually, nearly a tenth of the human population have this ability. Fish people take note of this and begin taking tentative steps to reconnect with humans and make peace. This is a slow process as there is a lot of bad blood, but eventually progress is made.
530 AR: Nearly a quarter of the human race has the ability to change into alternate forms at this point. At first the alternate forms are based on animals, but eventually people begin to change into forms that don’t resemble any animal species, these people’s alternate forms are referred to as mutants. At this point the majority of fish people begin integrating into the human population, mostly in seaside towns and cities. A few stalwart towns and colonies remain below the surface.
550AR: More and more humans have the ability to change. It’s gotten to the point where people spend most of their time in their alternate form, seeing little reason to change back. The first babies are born in their alternate form around this time.
570AR: The majority of humanity now lives constantly in their alternate forms. Eventually people start losing the ability to change back. The term “human” starts to be seen as out dated, as their are now many types of people living in the world. A historian examines the ancient records of the Axiom and the other ships and discovers a term that seemed to be used long ago to describe many different types of beings. Though incomplete records mean that the historian is unable to find the original meaning of the word. Never the less, the historian proposes the term as a way to describe all people, no matter what they are,. Most people are skeptical, but some begin to adopt the new term.
600AR: So many people have begun using the new term, that it is formally adopted as an official universal term to describe everyone. Outdated terms, like human, fish people, animal people and mutants are still used in certain circles. But, the majority of people on the planet, now seeing themselves as one race, simply refer to themselves by the new term “Monsters”.
So, that’s my idea. Of course, when the movies come out, they may shoot it full of holes. But, in the mean time, what do you think?
