Grand Unifying Guesses/Conspiracy

All of fiction is an elaborate conspiracy.

 * People have noticed this cabal and are attempting to gather as much information as possible to destroy it. For instance, in our reality, the internet holds the information.
 * Transformers: Teletraans.
 * Pokémon: Pokedexes.
 * Naruto: Kabuto's Ninja-info-cards.
 * Dragon Ball: The scouter.
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles.
 * Austin Powers: Basil Exposition.
 * Lucky Star: Miyuki Takara.
 * Kingdom Hearts: Jiminy's Journal.
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender: Wan Shi Tong's Library.
 * This has some disturbing implications. Either A: This cabal intends to further manipulate Earth with this info, or B: the countercabal will plunge us into another Dark Age.
 * When you say "their pawn Arthur Dent", you mean the man who runs the galaxy, right, as is known to six people in it -- and we have seen six people who know? You may have underestimated this "pawn"'s subtle game of Gambit Fizzbin. Prak has not. Fortunately, he is part of the cabal.
 * From my limited knowlege of current events, Mr. Dent has gone into hiding in New York and is assisted with his assistant, John Munch. Munch was assigned to New York from Baltimore to protect Arthur and fight any civil-liberty-threatening laws that come up in his work, as they would reveal his presence. (SVU is the department that usually ran into these laws first.)
 * I have some interesting new information on my theory, and I'll post it on the Fora within the next few days. If someone whose username isn't 'Moogi' posts it, it's a red herring put there by the cabal.
 * Where does Haruhi Suzumiya fit into this?
 * Wherever she wants.
 * Haruhi is just a front. The Cabal use her as a distraction to draw speculation away from the real source of power - them.
 * Whatever the case is, The Question knows all about it...
 * The Countercabal (which attempts to destroy all information) include the following:
 * Big Brother.
 * The Crimson King. The Dark Tower is the source of all information in King's reality.
 * Jack Chick, who attempted (and still attempts) to convince that this information is, in fact, Satanic.
 * Wormtongue. Had Gandalf (who is basically a pawn of Mustrum Ridcully, who is in turn a pawn of Vetinari) not intervened, Tolkien's world would have vanished, along with Tolkien.
 * In addition, Jasper Fforde invented his literary police to keep the Countercabal in check. So, the question is, where does he fit into this?
 * The same place as The Question and Dr. Henry Killinger - an independent agent trying to preserve lifekind from the mad ambitions of both the Cabal and the Countercabal.
 * Yukari Yakumo is manipulating all of them with "Boundary between free will and mind control". Since she is the ultimate aspect of Haruhi, this makes sense.
 * And the Cabal never saw Helen Magnus coming.
 * However, Tommy Oliver saw it all coming, and has personally stopped both cabals with his sheer awesomeness.
 * All of which, Cabal, Countercabal, and independents; God, Nyarlathotep and Xanatos; the Guild of Calamitous Intent, the Boy Scouts and the Vatican; every person, being and concept in the Pantheon; every US President, Roman Emperor and Egyptian Pharaoh; every person with power they put there, every plan put forth by their will, every revelation made with their permission; all of them are know to be incarnations, cells, sub-groups, dupes or agents, knowingly or obliviously, mortal or infinite, of the same omnipresent, inscrutable and immortal Ordo Illuminati.
 * Yes, even that one.
 * Which is being masterminded by Keyser Soze, who is in turn being puppeteered by Artemis Fowl.
 * And FINALLY (really, this time), Artemis Fowl is manipulated by... the Cabal. Yes. There is no true Man Behind the Man. The hierarchy of puppeteering, the chain of gambits... just loops around.

David Xanatos was behind everything.

 * Including everything that happened in Star Trek the Next Generation and beyond.
 * Why else would so many tropes be named after him? He's behind every plan in existance.
 * Jossed by This Very Wiki. He has only has two now.
 * That's just what he wants you to think! Or is that? Argggh!
 * So does that mean that David Xanatos is Tzeentch?
 * No. He's the God-Emperor.
 * No, he's Vetinari.

The Question is aware of or in on every single conspiracy throughout all fiction.
Hey, he figured out the fluoridated toothpaste/spy satellite connection, not to mention that sinister aglet thing. It's not too much of a stretch.
 * This makes him the Anti-Xanatos.
 * Au contraire! His conspiratorial knowledge only goes back to Ancient Egypt. HOWEVER! The oldest known work of fiction (The Epic of Gilgamesh) goes back to Sumer, before Ancient Egypt! The Pan-Fictional Cabal (above) is outside the realm of his knowledge!
 * However, upon reading the above statement, he has now become aware of the gap in his knowledge and is working on filling it.
 * As much as I hesitate to bring... rationality to this page, The Epic of Gilgamesh's 2000 year writing process starts about 1000 years after what we call Ancient Egypt started. The Epic was finalized at about the same time Ancient Egypt was falling. So the Question is good actually. Unless this accepted history stuff is just what they want you to think...

Batman has planned all of this
He is also Xanatos in disguise. He has planned every work of fiction, all crossover, and all of this speculation we are doing, leading to an, as of now, unknown end.
 * Which explains why he hasn't finished his plan yet. Vic Sage is close enough to spot and defeat the plans before they finish.
 * No, no. It's simply that he's Tzeentch, and thus his plan will never end.
 * Furthermore, Xanatos is a natural evolution of Batman's "Matches Malone" personality, created so he couldn't foil Batman's (the dominant personality) plans. Yes, Batman created a massive fictional conspiracy to test himself.

Shikamaru planned everything.
Batman shouldn't have been hiding in the shadows all this time. Shikamaru is controlling him with his Shadow Possesion Technique, as well as any other conspirers that hide in the dark. Even SEELE.

All of fiction is really a cabal as mentioned above, and is trying to turn everyone into Hikikomori (Introverts)
The only one who has figured this out is Satou Tatsuhiro from Welcome to The NHK.
 * Who, being fictional, is actually a part of the conspiracy. He's faking being a victim as a sort of Sarcastic Confession to throw of suspicions.
 * So, Satou is really a red herring who works for the Cabal?

The Cabal is the fandom of reality
Think about it. Why would all the myriad universes have lasted so long if the Cabal is behind everything, ever? Why can nobody agree what the Cabal is doing, let alone the Cabal itself? Why is there so much Ho Yay all over the place? Why do people become Flanderised? Why do people have UST but nothing happens? Because the Cabal are the fans of reality - bickering constantly with one another over what is "true" and what isn't, writing more and more stories and arguing about them. The only thing that keeps them together is their love of reality and their desire for it to continue.
 * So, the Cabal is US. All of us. All human and other sentient beings that exist, ever existed and will ever exist are THE CABAL.
 * Another theory: Our reality is actually a work of fiction, written by humanoid beings living in an utopian universe where there is no murder, war, disease, poverty, despair, etc. -- in other words, an incredibly boring universe. Also, everything in that universe is homogeneous and identical, from the inhabitants to their cities. So when one of them has a moment of inspiration and describes a fictional universe where new challenges to overcome pop up every day and there's always something new and different to discover, the most obsessive fans of this work began to constitute the Cabal.
 * If something particularly weird happens, it's because one of the Cabal members wrote a silly fanfic about an universe they don't completely understand.

Everything that has happened in fiction either has actually happened, or is a simulation run by various governments
Basically, the entirety of fiction was started centuries ago as a defence mechanism against other governments, should they ever get hold of certain secrets and try to disseminate them amongst the public at large - the idea being that the public would simply point out that it had been used as the plot of a film/tv series/book/play/whatever, and therefore disbelieve the person disseminating the secrets. Project Fact and Fiction, as it became to be called, entailed turning every possible government secret into the core of a work of fiction: this therefore explains the mystery surrounding Shakespeare's plays - they were part of Project Fact and Fiction, and thus were actually written by playwrights working for Queen Victoria. Any work of fiction that couldn't possibly be based on Earth, either due to the necessities of the genre (e.g. fantasy, sci-fi) or due to anachronisms with established history (anything set in WWII, 1984) were generated via simulations to gauge human responses to such situations, and also provided a useful smokescreen to hide the actual government secrets in.
 * Gibberish! That was exactly the plot of... oooooooohhh!

The Cabal transcends both reality and fiction, and the following are in fact the Cabal:
SEELE, The Illuminati, Anonymous and The Internet. CABAL can also be involved.

The most bitter rivals of the Cabal are:
.
 * If that's true, we should root for the Cabal.

It's all a Nemesis plot
All of it. Ever.

The Templars
Just The Templars.