#50/50 theories

[heroesfixated]

50/50 Heroes Theory - Something Dark Is Coming

Following these posts I made, I would like to present a theory of mine as to what is going on here. This show is so soft, cute and funny, that it's hard to believe at first that something sinister is happening in the background. I will attempt to shed some light on it.

All of the following is just my theory based on evidence found in the episodes. It could be completely wrong, so take it with a grain of salt.

I don't think I need to defend this point too much, but still, let me present this case with the clearest image of this mystery person I could find:

The head shape, the blue hair, the cap... The resemblance is hard to deny - it has to be Mo. Most probably, Mo from the future, traveling back in time, as the figure seems to be a little older.

Another piece of evidence we can look at to confirm this: the mysterious person's appearance in Episode 25A, when Mo and Sam traveled back in time 10 whole years:

Something like this can be possible IF that person is also a time traveler.

Now that we've established that it's Future Mo, another question arises: why? What could've happened that made him go back, and seemingly without his sister?

(Let's ignore that backpack he's carrying for now and the ominous hair sticking out of it...)

Well, for that, let us look at WHO he seems to be following exactly, as that's not as black and white as it seems either.

Out of 50 11-minute episodes and a 22-minute finale, so far, I was able to find exactly 40 instances of Future Mo following our main characters. If we break it down, we will see that 13 of those times, he have been seen following both Mo and Sam together. 1 time it has been just Mo (Episode 1B, when Sam teleported away just a moment ago) and 1 time when Mo was stuck in Sam's body (Episode 7A). As for scenes with just Sam, without Mo around... This character was spotted 25 times. This is not a coincidence.

Another piece of evidence is presented in this sneaky screenshot of the school vents from Epsidoe 9B. If you look closely, you can see a full bag of chips, a picture of Sam with some illegible writing and an arrow pointing at her, and a picture/poster of Mo and Sam's apartment building. That points to someone, most probably our mystery character in question, staying in this school vent.

And following Sam specifically.

With these assumptions, that it's Future Mo following Sam, we can only assume that something has happened to her and Mo is back to try and fix things, and get his sister back. As to what happened exactly, not much evidence can be found. Except for the only time we get to see his perspective as he is spying on our character in the finale:

(click for better quality)

It is interesting that we get to see his POV in this scene specifically out of the entire show and finale, as if we were meant to draw our attention to it. This scene is about Mo getting too cocky and fame-crazy, while Sam is voicing her frustrations with him and wishing to go do something good, like an actual hero would. It follows them fighting and almost separating.

This suggests that perhaps, this scene is important to our mystery character. Perhaps something similar has happened, a big fight between siblings that led to... all this.

Putting all of the evidence into one cohesive theory, we get the following:

At some point, a big fight between the siblings occurs, leading to something terrible happening to Sam, possibly due to the scepter freaking out, for which Mo could be directly or indirectly responsible. Devastated and determined to get his sister back, Mo goes back in time to stop the accident from happening, only to go back too soon. Now he spends his days following Sam out of guilt and the wish to protect her, while living in the school ventilation shafts, waiting for the day he can fix his mistake and be with her once again.

This is just part of the theory, as I didn't tackle everything (for example, the eye-question mark symbol on his hand, or the very suspicious blue hair poof sticking out of his backpack) but this is my starting point. However, the only thing that can truly shed light on this mystery is season 2 of this wonderful show, which I wholeheartedly hope will happen someday.

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS

[marzipanandminutiae]

I've gotten some interesting responses to my post wondering if Um Actually 3 AM Is The REAL Time For Supernatural Occurrences was a traditional thing before I first noticed it in the creepypasta boom of the late 00s-2010s, as many of those creepypastas claimed. some of them along "guys. please. reading comprehension" lines, I admit

"Lots of cultures have a Witching Hour!" yes, true, but that's not 3 AM specifically. for a long time it was usually midnight, or an unspecified late night/wee hours of the morning period

"This author says 3 AM feels like depression or vice versa!" that is not about Spooky Things Happening; try again

"early Christian beliefs say-" "well, in traditional Japanese folklore-" sources??? (also from what I've seen while looking into this, the Hour of the Ox in historical Japanese timekeeping was between 1 AM and 3 AM- 3 AM specifically was the end of it, not the beginning. but it was a traditional time for curses)

A mention of 3 AM as a particularly bad time of night re: health, sleep, nightmares, etc. in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), which DOES seem reliable and close enough to what I'm talking about

Apparently the 1974 Amityville murders happened at 3 AM, and of course that house had a highly public (probably faked) haunting. So that could have contributed

I haven't yet found anything earlier than that Bradbury reference that SPECIFICALLY mentions 3 AM as a time when scary and/or supernatural things happen, WITH ACTUAL SOURCES

Interestingly, the Bradbury quote doesn't seem to refer back to an existing cultural belief in the idea of Evil 3 AM(TM). rather it's framed as the narrator's personal feelings around that particular time of night:

"Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. The soul is out. The blood moves slow. You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams ... And wasn’t it true, had he read somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. than at any other time." [I can't find any credible studies of this, for the record]

so it seems like the seeds of the idea were floating around in the cultural consciousness for a long time, between unspecified Witching Hours and the Hour of the Ox curses and this probably erroneous but popular belief that most people who die in hospitals do so at 3 AM. but as for the very strictly-defined notion that Supernatural Things Are Most Likely To Happen At 3 AM...the earliest anecdotal reference I saw to someone having heard that was from the 1980s, and it doesn't seem to have really entered the zeitgeist with force until the late 2000s, earliest

unless someone shows me a source on something earlier, that's what I'm going with

which leaves my takeaway, as a paranormal believer, being: there's nothing supernaturally special about 3 AM, unless it has individual significance to a specific entity or haunting (ie residual apparition of an event that took place at that time). it's something people came up with for interesting fiction, as a fresh take on the longstanding western idea that the Witching Hour is midnight, and not even that long ago

[dorothygale]

debut tv at midnight

[gengwasted]

This is purely self indulgent, I just wanted to draw a feral looking goddess of flowers Kaveh. Haitham tagged along lol

[bibliophilesince2003]

Transformers

Ok, don't ask me why, but...

Optimus dances like they did in the 50s. Classy and simple. He doesn't dance unless he knows (or thinks) no one is watching. I would like to believe, though, that he wouldn't mind dancing in front of Elita.

Imagine, in Transformers Prime...

*Miko blasts music at full volume; Bumblebee is the first to jump in and rock some epic dance moves*

*Optimus observes from a distance, then excuses himself*

*Ratchet rolls his eyes and gets back to work*

*Ultra Magnus watches in confusion*

*Arcee, Bulkhead, Jack, Raf, and Smokescreen (a terrible dancer, but he does his best) join Miko and Bumblebee*

Later, the group goes out to scout; Ratchet and Optimus hang back. Ratchet is weary from working and tells Optimus that he needs to take a quick break. He leaves the base. Optimus considers the speakers a minute. He surveys the base and double checks the cameras. Finally, he gets the speakers to work, but it switches to a different album Miko rarely plays, as she prefers rock over older music. 50s music comes on. Optimus nods his head and taps his feet. Again, he surveys the base. Then, he starts dancing the way they did in the 50s. Well, the way humans do. He's good at it. He smiles a little bit.

Meanwhile, the others get back to the base. Jack hears the music playing and throws his hand out to stop Miko before she can sprint into the room. Arcee cocks her head and wordlessly tells the others to be quiet. Ratchet peers around the corner and stares in shock. Eventually, they all stare in shock. They whisper to each other.

Smokescreen: Our leader is more impressive than we thought.

Miko: I am never deleting that album.

Not wanting to embarrass Optimus, they hang back and wait until the music stops, then casually enter. Optimus awkwardly stands to the side. The others get back to work, and Optimus gradually relaxes and asks them whether they saw anything out of the ordinary. They shake their head and converse for a bit. Miko turns the speakers on, and 50s music comes back on.

Miko: Huh. I forgot I had this album.

Optimus: It is good to extend your knowledge on a variety of... musical tastes.

Miko: You know, Optimus, if you ever did dance, I think this would fit you well.

Optimus: Hm.

Still, he smiles. The others have to hide their smiles.

Not only that, but Peter Cullen probably grew up with this kind of music.

[halluciniwaynia]

the cybergrind terminals having a custom music playlist that v1 can access implies all of the music that you, the player upload into the game is music that was not only produced in the world of ultrakill but also considered important enough by the terminals to keep around for the possibility of machines entering the cybergrind in order to keep them coming back and enriched, since machines have an appreciation of music that the terminals already use to lure them in and develop a symbiotic relationship with them

this means 100 gecs can be canon to the world of ultrakill along with neil ciceriga, should you upload their music into your cybergrind playlist.

[slowlydehydrating]

I was thinking about Sammy’s hallucination in season 1, and was wondering if that was going to end up being a bigger thing for her (like it ending up being caused by a mental illness) but turns out hallucinations when grieving are incredibly common, like 30-50%.

[heroesfixated]

Mysterious Person | Part 4

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4

Episode 22 - Mo All Mighty/Good Old Mo

Time - 07:50

Time - 14:37

Episode 23 - Perfect Aim/BooBoo Cat

Time - 02:05

Time - 17:53

Episode 24 - Sam Crawls the Web/Faaaaaast

Time - 16:01

Episode 25 - Sam Plays With Time/Who Took the Fly Swatter

Time - 05:35

Time - 11:25

Honorable mention: Amber's detective board

Time - 14:51

Episode 26 - Swatteroo the Sublime

Time - 07:32

Time - 09:48

Honorable mention: their POV

Time - 14:37

And of course, the one we all know:

If new images are found, this post will be updated.

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4

[p0m0u]

Ben | Brooklynn | Darius | Kenji | Yaz | Other Gifsets

[self-spaghettification]

the black part on aaravos’s chest is suspiciously shaped like a certain sword

the more i look at it

the more i hmmmm

and the nova-blade is a double edged sword (albeit tapered)

btw, I also recently accidentally cut myself, so I was researching which open wounds need stitches and which don’t. It looks like how a deep open wound does—if it were a black void

images of wounds under the cut

fyi open wounds don’t heal correctly without stitches so this is very likely the physical or magical manifestation of the scar after—

“White as the star's heart it pierced, ivory draconic brought death's bite known ever forth as Novablade..

and though undying, took last breath, immortal Laurelion was no more”

if not the open wound itself, eternally unable to heal

take that as you will :)

[neunhofferart]

Do you know the reason why Kenji has so many boxes in his trailer?

My first assumption is that he just moved or he keeps his climbing gear in there.

Thnaks

He ordered too many of his 'You Kon Climb Too' bumper stickers in bulk lol

[the-black-bulls]

Yami: Is Nacht always like this when he loses?

Morgen: Oh yes. You should’ve been here for the Great Jenga Tantrum of Our 10th Birthday.

Nacht: YOU BUMPED THE TABLE AND YOU KNOW IT!

[alfairy]

What if Shadow sees Tom wearing that GUN uniform and it just sets him off in the worst way because when Tom’s wearing it, he resembles the soldier that killed Maria

[canisalbus]

Would you say it’s fair to call Machete straight melancholic and Vasco is sanguine/phlegmatic?

Vasco is largely sanguine (optimistic, energetic, social, passionate, impulsive) with phlegmatic tones (empathetic, relaxed, loyal, stable, shiftless).

Machete is predominantly melancholic (serious, reserved, analytical, sensitive, anxious) but he also has a choleric side (ambitious, efficient, independent, irritable, vengeful).

[a-blog-for-venting-i-guess]

I love the irony of the Autobots and Decepticon war lasting for thousands of years yet Sentinel was in charge for at most, around 50 years.

The war with the Quintessons was also thousands of years if I recall.

Starscream might’ve been onto something when he said the idea of a unified cybertron was a myth.