The Pixar Theory will change your viewing experience!
Like the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the Pixar movies may have been connected to each other all this time, and we’re just left with easter eggs to decipher. The Pixar Theory popularized by Jon Negroni, suggests that Pixar movies have a shared universe and timeline. Although unofficial, this theory is so convincing like puzzles that were made to fit. In case you want to find the clues yourself and want a guide to the best viewing order, here’s the breakdown of the Pixar Theory.
The Pixar Theory in a Nutshell
The Good Dinosaur
Taking place 65 million years ago, or the so-called Cretaceous period. This movie shows an alternate reality where the asteroid missed Earth and dinosaurs managed to survive. The dinosaurs and other creatures here have primitive senses to survive; they provide shelter and resources for themselves. It’s a foreshadowing of the animals’ intelligence in the future.
Brave
The 10th century period was when the wisps’ magic was first introduced by a witch, whom Princess Merida encountered. The witch has the ability to travel mysteriously through different doors. The witch’s cabin is full of objects and animals that have their own willpower, just like the toys in Toy Story movies. The animals which have been experimented with by the witch will interbreed in the future and slowly gain intelligence.
The Incredibles
Set in the 1950s, the movie follows a nuclear family of superheroes. The Pixar theory believes that the government harnessed human energy and created the first superheroes (initially as spies). Another advancement is AI (Artificial Intelligence) which Syndrome used to develop omnidroids. It prompted the rise of the Buy n Large (BnL) corporation. (If you’re still in the dark, BnL subtly appears in almost every Pixar movie).
Toy Story and Toy Story 2
The BnL established a new toy business in the 1990s. These toys were created to harvest children’s raw energy, therefore giving them life. Meanwhile, Toy Story 2 started with the toys’ growing resentment towards humans because of their wrongdoings, like the children’s mistreatment of toys.
Finding Nemo and Finding Dory
By this time, animals like sea creatures continue to develop intelligence. They communicate, read, shop, learn new languages, and even go to school. The resentment left by Toy Story 2 was also harbored by fish held in captivity.
Ratatouille
A rat named Remy became engulfed with human culture and somehow developed a dream of becoming the best chef in France. In this movie, we also see Remy’s clan of rats who are also angry at humans (and vice versa).
Toy Story 3
Set 11 years after Toy Story 2, this film showed how the toys now feel abandoned as Andy goes to college. Only a few toys survived at this point since the theory predicted that toys lose their life when put in storage for too long.
This movie also shows a myriad of easter eggs like Darla (Finding Nemo) on a magazine’s cover, Carl and Ellie being acquaintances of Andy, and Buzz’s batteries being branded as BnL, somehow proving the theory (photo below).
UP
After Ellie’s passing, a faceless corporation decided to expand the city and pressured Carl to leave their house. Instead, Carl sets out to fulfill her dream of moving to Paradise Falls. But who do you think is that faceless company that’s guilty of polluting the Earth and starting to achieve global dominance? BnL.
It also introduced the beginning of pollution and animals’ true potential through special collars which make them talk. Kevin, the prehistoric bird also resembles the creatures in The Good Dinosaur. It’s possible that Kevin is a descendant of those creatures. (Fun fact: A small skeleton who seems to be of the same species as Kevin appeared in Turning Red).
Inside Out
And of course, humans’ source of energy is emotion. Here, we see Riley’s imaginary friend Bing Bong, who disappears because he was forgotten. It made sense to the fact that sentiency or memory has the power to make something alive.
Coco
Miguel’s dream of becoming a musician came to a halt when he was cursed and taken to the Land of the Dead. Like Inside Out, it shows that ghostly skeletons also disappear when their loved ones forget about them.
Wall-E
By 2057, BnL has taken over the world and overpopulation has ravaged all of the resources. BnL then pledged to restore Earth using Wall-E units, leading to humans’ evacuation to space. The protagonist Wall-E that we see can survive and be alive even without human energy because he’s solar-powered, and has seemed to inhibit humans’ fondness for love.
BnL’s plan backfired. And with only one city left to clean, BnL decided to abandon Earth because the air becomes even more polluted and unlivable. Humans then remain in space through the spacecraft Axiom for 700 years.
Cars, Cars 2 and 3
Now that Earth is human-free, the cars left by humans who loved them started to find their own purpose. They enlivened their owners’ daily habits and rely on racing as their favorite sport. However, Cars 2 revealed the fuel shortage and the lack of human emotion to power them, hence their eventual ‘death.’
A Bug’s Life
As humans return to Earth at the end of Wall-E, human energy returned the spark to the world. Insects and birds who survived the pollution (as evident in the cockroach in Wall-E) started to build their own societies and civilization on their own.
Monsters University and Monsters Inc.
Although BnL doesn’t exist anymore after the events of Wall-E, their environmental pollution still led to human extinction but birthed to new species — monsters. These monsters, who look like mutated animals, gather children’s fear as their energy. They used doors to travel back to the time when humans still exist.
Now, behold for a major twist…
The cute toddler that we all know, Boo (Mary) of Monsters Inc. was believed to be the witch from Brave. She became desperate to find Sully again and spent her life experimenting with magic through doors. She also seems to have an obsession with bear-like figures and even has a carving of Sully in her workshop.
What are your thoughts about this Pixar Theory? Were they just coincidences or is the Pixar Theory proven to be true? Let us know!
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