How do Monsters University & Monsters, Inc. fit in the Pixar Theory?
What are the movies about?
The general assumption of Monsters, Inc. and its prequel take
place in a special world for monsters that we can only get to through our
bedroom and closet doors. Jon Negroni believes that this movie is set on Earth,
2000 years in the future. Right off the bat, Monsters, Inc. tells us that the
monster society, completely relies on human energy as electricity. We see that
monsters work day jobs as scarers. Their assistants assemble a folder of
profiles of children they can scare and then use a keycard to summon the door
for that specific child. When the summoned door makes contact with the frame
powered by their machines, the monsters can easily go through, to scare kids in
a complete different place. All the scarer has to do is to scare the child into
screaming. Then, canisters collect the screams and converts it into energy.
At the beginning of the movie, we are introduced to Mike and Sulley. Two monsters that are considered the best scaring team. One day, Sulley discovers that Randall (an enemy monster) has been opening doors after hours and while Sulley is investigating, a young girl follows Sulley into the monsters world. Sulley panics when he sees her because humans are considered toxic in the monster’s world. However, he still leaves Monsters, Inc., before anyone realizes that he’s brought a human into the monster world. Over time, Sulley bonds with the girl and names her Boo. He has to protect her because there is a special group that make sure monsters don’t interfere with humans, called the CDA. With Mike’s help, Sulley sneaks Boo back into Monsters, Inc., disguised as a monster child. Mike and Sulley eventually learn that Randall was trying to kidnap Boo. They learn that the CEO of Monsters, Inc., is behind the whole thing. In order to keep the company running, he and Randall have been kidnapping kids and forcing them to scream to give the company energy to sell. |
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comes something really strange. You know how humans got back to Earth, right?
Well, Jon Negroni and many others believe that the monsters used to be humans
but ate special fruit that turned them into monsters. Keep that in your brains.
So we’ve established that humans are batteries and in Monsters, Inc. the kids are used like batteries to power an entire city. So why do monsters have an operation devoted to scaring the energy out of kids? After the fall of humans, the monsters probably started building their society. They probably found out that using fossil fuels isn’t good for the environment so figured to use clean energy. The problem is that energy has to come from humans. We have established briefly that wooden doors are time travelling machines. So the problem is, monsters need humans, but there aren’t any. So they have to travel back in time to get human screams for energy. The doors they travel back in time with are made of wood, just like in Brave. Hmmm, I wonder if the two are related. |
The Facts/Evidence
- Ants slowly evolved into monsters and they founded Monsters' University.
- Monsters were falsely taught that humans were toxic.
- Monsters had to travel back in time to get energy from human screams and later, green energy from laughter.