10 TV Fan Theories Confirmed By The Creators

10. Adventure Time - The Story Takes Place After A Nuclear War

Adventure Time tells the story of a boy called Finn and his magical dog, Jake, going on wacky adventures in The Land of Ooo. Throughout the show, the characters repeatedly refer to a cataclysmic event called The Great Mushroom War.

At first, the name of this battle didn't stand out since everything else in the story is just as odd and random. Throughout the series, Jake turns into a brick, Finn encounters a spanking goblin, and Gunther the penguin is revealed to be a space god. Calling a battle "The Great Mushroom War" sounds pretty tame compared to the rest of the show's weirdness.

However, some fans believed that The Great Mushroom War was so-called as a reference to the mushroom clouds created by nuclear bombs. So, this wasn't some silly little fight where people were throwing fungi at each other. It was a nuclear holocaust which decimated the world.

But here's the coolest thing about this theory. The creator of the show, Pendleton Ward, never intended The Great Mushroom War to reference a nuclear fallout. However, he thought this fan-theory was so amazing, he incorporated it into the show.