Random Action Movie Fan Theories That Change Everything (15 items)

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  (#11) Dom From 'The Fast And The Furious' Franchise Is A Terminator

  Redditor /u/Jimandthem thinks highly of Dom Toeretto (Vin Diesel) of the Fast and Furious franchise. Very highly. Based on the fact that Universal tried to get the rights to Terminator back in the day, this Redditor believes Toretto is one of the cybernetic organisms from the future. He points to five pieces of evidence:

  1. Dom apparently has super strength, evidenced by him holding up an engine block in Fast and Furious with one hand.
  2. He doesn't feel pain, which is made clear by his lack of reaction when he gets hit by a crowbar in that same movie.
  3. His fighting style is reminiscent of the Terminator's.
  4. His plans never take into account his bodily safety; refer to #2 for an explanation of that.
  5. He seems un-killable, surviving a terrible bus crash and a car roll into a burning plane in Fast Five, as well as a cliff dive into a helicopter in Furious 7, to name a few examples.
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  (#8) Mad Max Is One Of The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Specifically Death

  Redditor /u/Zephyrbal has an explanation for why Max didn't seem to age a day over the course of the decades that past between the first Mad Max and Fury Road: He's a horsemen of the apocalypse. But here's the kicker - humanity kind of beat him to his job. The theory rests on four pillars (fittingly):

  1. He doesn't age (as already established)
  2. He is "an agent of change"
  3. "On a chrome horse he rides" - he is naturally adept at operating any kind of vehicle
  4. He is "unreasonably durable"

  Zephyrbal concludes:

  "Max is a horseman in a now irrelevant apocalypse, though he is certainly not aware of that fact. He is driven to travel endlessly, unconsciously guiding the righteous toward salvation (though of a purely terrestrial kind) and punishing the wicked. He possesses supernatural longevity, likely until his purpose is fulfilled, and he also possesses several other seemingly supernatural traits (such as always being able to find another interceptor), though he seems to be aware of none of them. His true purpose subverted by our own self-destruction, he is doomed to wander.

  "To answer the speculation of so many on which Horseman max represents in this theory, I believe Death fits the best. No matter what the scenario the thing that Max brings the most of is Death."
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  (#14) Nyah From 'Mission Impossible II' Was Actually Jane Carter From 'Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol' In A Mask

  Paula Patton plays agent Jane Carter in Ghost Protocol, but Redditor /u/Airkay88 thinks we've seen the character before:

  "Nyah (Thandie Newton) is the MI2's villian's old girlfriend, and he's a rogue IMF agent. The theory is Nyah is actually an IMF agent sent to monitor the agent turned villain when he was still active, like the IMF team sent to monitor Ethan back in MI1. Why would IMF risk their mission on a civilian when they have the IMF mask technology.

  "And she later re-surfaces in Ghost Protocol, probably asked to be assigned to Ethan to make up for ditching him two movies ago. [Sort] of like Ethan keeping an eye on his ex, she's sought (sic) of doing the same."
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  (#15) 'Die Hard' And Pixar Movies Exist In The Same Universe

  The "Pixar Theory" (that all Pixar movies exist in the same universe) has essentially been confirmed to be true by Disney, so Max Knoblauch's notion that all the Pixar movies also share a universe with Die Hard at least starts from a somewhat sound base. Then it gets a little less reasonable. Here's the breakdown:

  • John McClane references pizza in the first Die Hard movie, a supposed allusion to the Pizza Planet truck first shown in Toy Story, which subsequently showed up in all other Pixar movies. (Also, the Pizza Planet truck could be in any traffic sequence in the Die Hard franchise, just obscured by other vehicles on the road.)
  • Toy Story 3 features a train with a number 95 on it, the same year (1995) that the third Die Hard movie was released which also had a train sequence.
  • Up and A Good Day to Die Hard have similar plots if you explain them very superficially.
  • The ubiquitous chase scenes throughout the Die Hard franchise explain the future world of Cars, because cars.
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  (#10) Kurt Mayron From 'Daddy's Home 2' Is Martin Riggs From 'Lethal Weapon'

  Mel Gibson plays Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon franchise, but he also plays Kurt Mayron (father of Mark Wahlberg's character) in Daddy's Home 2. Redditor /u/Therealethandunne believes there's a connection:

  "Riggs’s wife is dead in the events of the first film. Kurt’s son Dusty never talks about his mother, nor does she ever appear. Another time, Don Whitaker tells Kurt he should look into joining an improv club. Kurt then states, “I’d rather look into a loaded gun.” Martin almost attempts suicide and looks into his loaded gun. But why the name change? Martin doesn’t want to live in his shadow of the past when he killed people so he changed his name to forget about the past. This whole theory can be held together by the fact that each character is portrayed by Mel Gibson." 
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  (#12) The President Staged The Hijacking In 'Air Force One'

  The visionary Redditor /u/aerostotle has a pretty fascinating theory about Air Force One, namely that President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) staged the hijacking for political gain. The (long) theory is broken down into seven points, abbreviated here:

  1. Both the president's National Security Advisor and Chief of Staff died early in the movie, and they both had disagreed with him on his "no negotiating with terrorists" policy. This is not an accident.
  2. Marshall actually did negotiate in the end, but the government covered that up.
  3. Marshall's heroics all but guarantee him a victory in the next election.
  4. The power hungry Secretary of Defense reacted poorly to the situation, allowing Marshall to fire him, eliminating a potential political threat.
  5. Marshall didn't like the Air Force One staff because his pilot laughed at his desire to go to Barbados and a flight attendant prematurely told him a football score, so he didn't mind endangering them.
  6. Gibbs (Xander Berkeley) proves his lack of character when he turns on Marshall in the end, but it was this weakness of character that convinced Marshall to include Gibbs in the scheme from the beginning, which he did.
  7. The terrorists were Russian because Marshall spoke Russian, which allowed him to communicate with them without others understanding.

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