10 Best Fan Theories For 2017's Biggest Movies

Delving into the weird and wonderful world of film fan theories can be a wild ride. Much like the movies that spawn them, they range from the brilliant to the awful and from the perfectly logical to making about as much sense as Donald Trump being elected US President.

We’re probably all aware of the bigger, more established fan theories like the ‘Pixar Connected Universe’ theory or that Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is supposedly his apology for helping NASA fake the 1969 moon landing but even movies released just this year haven’t escaped the clutches of zealous movie fans looking to finder deeper meaning by over-analysing every scene and theme in their new favourite movies.

Some of the fan theories spawned this year have been pretty ridiculous and already proven false, others are slightly more plausible and might even prove true.

Either way, they’re all fun to indulge: read on for 2017’s best fan theories.

This might seem a moot theory since GOTG 2 already gave us Mantis’ backstory – that’s she’s an orphan found by Ego while still in her larvae stage, raised by him into adulthood and kept around because her empathic abilities allow him to get some much-needed shut-eye – but bear with us.

We know that Ego spent his life traversing the universe impregnating women left, right and centre in order to breed a kid with the Celestial gene needed to put into motion his plans for intergalactic domination. What if Mantis was one of the many love-children he left scattered across the cosmos and avoided the same fate (i.e. death) endured by his other non-Celestial kids because he had a use for her via her empathic powers?

Seeing as Avengers: Infinity War is as crammed with superheroes as it could be, it’s unlikely we’ll see this theory proved wrong or right anytime soon but perhaps a Luke and Leia style twist is headed our way when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is released in 2020. Hope fully without the twincest kiss, though.