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* A certain [[Grand Unifying Guesses|Grand Unifying Guess]] related to this is present under [[Poison Oak Epileptic Trees]], if you care to scar yourself.
* This WMG has become such [[Fanon]], I'm moving it to the head of the list.
* And Marla's comment about Having not been umm, F'd like that since Grade school seems to point towards some thing happening between [[Screaming At Squick|Calvin and Susie]].
** Some of us choose to believe she ''could'' have meant it even slightly metaphorically; she did, after all, always look for a moving van at his house.
== Calvin grows up to be Calvin O'Keefe from ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' ==
Freckles, light hair, and a suspicious ability to believe in things no one else can see. It's obvious.
* Calvin is NEVER shown to have freckles in the comic. Some other (nameless) classmates are. He doesn't have freckles.
* Besides, Calvin O'Keefe plays basketball. Calvin only plays Calvinball.
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[[Law of Conservation of Detail|Occam's Razor]], and ''no one'' is aging up.
== Calvin lives in an [[Alternate Universe]] version of [[Higurashi no Naku Koro
Calvin is several decades old, and Hobbes is Hanyuu as a stuffed animal.
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The comics simply [[Anachronic Order|jump around different parts of this time period]] constantly. So every Christmas-related strip, for example, takes place at the same time chronologically.
* This theory explains the final comic. Calvin's birthday was the next day. The comic ended because he turned seven.
* [[Slaughterhouse
** Im-freakin'-possible Calvin has had a first day of school many times each time different events transpire.
* This has been my own personal canon for years.
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Tiger? Check. Sentient and friendly? Check. Stuffed with lovable fluff? Check. Calvin's just a conduit for the Hundred-Acre Wood.
* I'm starting to think Calvin's dad is Chrisopher Robin, in fact...
* This WMG is [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive]].
* Norwegian author Tor Åge Bringsværd, who wrote an introduction to the Norwegian translation of ''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'', claims that Hobbes is, in fact, Tigger's ''son.'' Who has inherited his father's hyperactive nature and fondness for pouncing on his friends, but is more reflective and philosophical.
== Calvin is a god in training. ==
He animated his stuffed tiger; he has created many, many realities; he even erased his "uncle" Max from existence. No sensible person would allow a being with all this power to do anything without learning how to control the power first, would they? Therefore, Calvin's (unnamed) town must be a training ground for him to learn to control his powers so that when the time comes, Calvin alone will be able to decide who lives and who dies. Considering that the one time Calvin imagined that he ''was'' a god, he demanded human sacrifices and smote those who disobeyed him, he has a long way to go.
* This opens up the possibility that Calvin was not the only god-in-training in his neighborhood. We only ever saw Calvin reshaping reality, but that doesn't necessarily mean the other children in the neighborhood didn't. Or, in another universe, another version of Calvin serves as a supporting character to another god-in-training. This, combined with certain similarities between the two characters, suggests that ''Susie Derkins eventually grows up to become [[
** Alternatively, Calvin is Kyon.
*** But the strip takes place in America, probably in Ohio. Haruhi and Kyon are from the Kansai region of Japan. This would explain the fact that they don't have the accents they should. It isn't beyond the realm of possibility that both Calvin and Suzie are Asian in heritage, given the simple art of the strip. Haruhi ''is'' in fourth grade or so when she attends the fateful baseball game, and three years is plenty of time to move to Japan. And neither series follows reality in the strictest sense.
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Coinciding with the directly above theory, Mr. Bun is how Roosevelt personifies himself in his own imaginary world; similarities: he has the appearance of a stuffed toy, he never moves, and the main characters know literally nothing about him. He projects his own ideologies (admittedly, in dumbed-down versions) of "everyone is either a loser, a fool or a corpse, except me" onto Calvin. In doing this, he is fantasising about how he thinks he would behave if he were a human child. Calvin's rants about consumerism and the stupidity of people are Roosevelt projecting onto Calvin.
== Calvin is [
You look at that hair and tell me they aren't the same person.
* It all makes sense. Calvin has picked up his dad's love of cycling, and he works at his school so he can maintain some connection to his youth.
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* One problem: a Sunday strip implies that Frazz grew up on a farm (Holden wishes we could go back to an agrarian society for longer summer breaks. Frazz starts giggling and his girlfriend basically says he spent his summers "bailing hay"). Calvin's parents live in the suburbs and never go into the country much less own a farm... unless they move there after the strip ended. Ooh, that gives me an idea!
* Also, Fazzverse seems to have the same sort of [[Groundhog Day Loop]] as Calvin and Hobbes. Furthermore, if Ms. Olsen/Ms. Wormwood was Frazz/Calvin's teacher, then the school is the same, therefore the ''school'' is what prevents kids from growing ups, and so Calvin only satrts to age when his parents move to the farm. It all makes sense!
* After I saw [https://web.archive.org/web/20100528072641/http://comics.com/zoom/305983/ this strip,] I decided that this is definitely the case. I mean, [http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=calvin+and+hobbes+sled&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=YIlBS5K3OYbetgPMsN2sBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CCQQsAQwBA sledding?]
** [http://comics.com/frazz/2010-12-26/ This one]{{Dead link}} seems to indicate that SOMEONE on that sled has had past experiences with busting up a sled or two.
== Calvin (age 6) moves to the country and becomes the Boy (~10) from [[Cow And Boy]] ==
...then moves back to the suburbs and becomes Jeremy (15-16) or Jeremy's brother (15-19), and finally Frazz (20s). If he makes purely selfish decisions in life he becomes Slick and never grows physically/mentally/emotionally, although I think he's ''trying'' to get better emotionally at least. Hobbes is replaced by Cow because he got lost during the move, which Calvin/Boy rationalizes as Hobbes going feral.
== Calvin is [
Hey, kids change a lot between ages six and fifteen... (Apparently, they stop being funny.)
* Jeremy Duncan has a brother who's a few years older than him (he doesn't appear often in ''Zits'', because he's attending college). Calvin is quite obviously an only child. So how does Jeremy's brother fit into this theory?
* Alternately, ''Calvin grows up to be Jeremy Duncan, who grows up to be Frazz.'' The logical continuation of this is, of course, that ''Frazz then grows up to be Edward Norton's character from ''[[Fight Club]]''.'' Thus, ''all four of these characters are gods.''
** Let's go one more step. Calvin grows up to be Jeremy, who grows up to be Frazz, who grows up to be "Tyler Durden," while Suzie grows up to be Haruhi Suzumiya; since [[Haruhi Suzumiya
***** This also means that Captain Jack is a god...
* Staying with Jeremy Duncan, it's obvious when you compare each character's parents: Calvin/Jeremy's dad just gained weight in the intervening years. That also means that it's also entirely possible that Susie is Sara and Moe is Hector.
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** That is a very insensitive anti-fandom-prejudice-fueled remark, my friend. This one was a nice WMG in itself.
*** It's a bit inconclusive. Calvin's love of stuffed animals and his rich fantasy life are standard gear for any imaginative youngster, and most people who are similar to Calvin as kids don't grow up to be furries.
*** Maybe so, but most kids like to alternate between animal and human fantasy pals. Calvin sticks almost ''exclusively'' to animal ones, and there's his repeated declarations that [[Humans Are
*** What about Spaceman Spiff, Stupendous man and Tracer Bullet? Between them they probably outnumber animal based imaginings.
**** ...and you maintain the strip's focus on Calvin and Hobbes, and you keep the cast nicely manageable. Honestly, does anyone out there really think Bill Watterson was writing about furries the whole time? I bet he barely knows what a furry is.
**** Thanks to [[Rule 34]], I'm sure he's far ''too'' aware of what a furry is, now.
* Incidentally, I find it hilarious how practically all of the above tropers subscribe to the "furry = furvert" stereotype.
** Indeed. Most real life furs don't start out in the fandom as furverts (and, in fact, got their "furry interest" from mundane things like a stuffed animal collection or [[Funny Animal]] children's cartoons, hence why a lot of furry [[Fan Art]] and [[Fanfic]] are about shows like ''[[
** So are we all subscribing to "furry = otherkin", then? I'm a little confused.
*** Otherkin != furry. Yes, you are confused. Just like 'normal' people don't all like the same things, not all furries are the same. The loud weirdos get all the press; just like not all christians are loudmouthed bigoted idiots like Pat Robertson, not all furries wear costumes 24x7, carry modified stuffed animals with genitalia (yet ANOTHER different fandom) and hump legs at a moment's notice.
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** Not really. Being furry doesn't have to be sexual in nature. He may simply like it as a world basis. He does, after all, enjoy changing into animals and his favorite stories involve tigers, wolves, bears, and hamsters.
== Calvin's parents eventually got fed up with him and sent him to a [[Akira
Eventually, he changed his name and dyed his hair, internalized the Hobbes persona, and made friends with another orphan boy named Kaneda.
* Possibly, his parents were killed, or couldn't support having a child in the post-war climate.
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* You're a monster and you're going straight to hell. ( {{spoiler|That's a joke, son.}})
* Whatever happened wouldn't be pretty. Hobbes is his only real control factor.
* Check out [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111130026/http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/happy-birthday-calvin.html this] skit from ''[[Robot Chicken]]''.
== Calvin is a [[Reality Warper]]. ==
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== Hobbes is an alien, a Fuzzy Tiger, who transforms into a plush toy when seen by humans ==
Combine the above theory with the aliens from the episode "Blink" of ''[[
* Like Kerberos from [[
== Calvin grows up (or rather, doesn't grow up) and becomes Slick from ''[http://www.sinfest.net/ Sinfest]'' ==
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* Unlikely, as no one else from the cast have Sinfest counterparts.
** They don't have to. Hobbes was probably discarded at some time. Slick's parents are never shown. And Calvin could simply have left town and changed names somewhen for some reason. (We don't even know how old Slick is, BTW). Also, WMG is not [[Serious Business]]. ;)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110926212415/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=59 Ahem...]
== Hobbes is the same species as the toys from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', but more powerful. ==
* The only one who sees through [[The Masquerade]] is Calvin (which has interesting implications for ''him''). But while most toys have to drop in place and "play dead" to maintain [[The Masquerade]], Hobbes is so powerful that he can basically do what he wants, and no one ''but'' Calvin will see. Even cameras can't catch him in the act of movement. He exercises the power unconsciously.
** So, Calvin is a reality warper who is only restrained by Hobbes, and Hobbes is a powerful being whose only check is Calvin. Uh-oh...
** Here are the living toy levels:
*** Level one: [[The Christmas Toy]]: the toy must go back to its original position or else be frozen forever.
*** Level two: [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]], [[The Brave Little Toaster]]: the toy can change from playing dead to alive at will and have limited communications with animals. They must play dead to hide from humans, other sapient races (Like [[Mechanical Lifeforms]] and [[Funny Animal
*** Level three: Hobbes: Can only be seen by select members of sapient races. Otherwise seen as a toy.
*** Level four: [[Winnie the Pooh]], [[Cars]]: Is always seen as alive, but people know the being is a toy.
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== Hobbes is a Shinigami ==
* His tuna addiction is similar to Ryuk's addiction to apples. Calvin has a [[
When Calvin grows up, he'll become a Kira. His alter ego, Tracer Bullet, will be the alias of T from Wammy's house.
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** Sir or madam, congratulations for coming up with the first [[Epilectic Tree]] I've seen so far on this page (virtually the first one I've seen anywhere on this site) to make a great deal of sense and make me wish I'd thought of it first. The only problem is that pookas in Celtic mythology were not exactly like they were depicted in ''Harvey'', but the Harvey-verse version of pookas certainly does seem to qualify.
== Calvin tricked Uncle Max into saying [[
* That's why after he ge
== Galaxoid and Nebular are early [[Doctor Who
Nebular the navigator clearly has a rather bloated ego about his "amazing navigation skills"; it's more than likely that he is so bad at it that the two managed to travel, by accident and completely without noticing, several millions of years forward in time. After the appearances they had in the strip, they will return to their own time, and after they die, Daleks will have their usual evolution with the nuclear war and Davros and stuff we all know.
* In addition, they eventually discover an ancient contract that shows that they have bought planet Earth at a bargain price. But when they come back to check out their new place, they find that Calvin, who never really owned Earth, didn't have the authority to make the trade, which made the contract moot. They'll be ultra-pissed and try to kill everyone; then Calvin will spontaneously manifest his Time Lord abilities and stop them.
== Calvin is a [[Changeling: The Lost
Likely a Nocker, from his caustic personality and constant inventing. Hobbes is his Chimera companion. His parents are too Banal to see him.
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* That suggestion coupled with the fact that I watch a lot of Law & Order makes me a little sick. An Uncle, visits his six-year old nephew once, goes to prison, and is never mentioned again. What kind of crime gets you THAT sort of treatment? Hint: It has it's own L&O spin-off.
== Calvin is Lan from [[
Hobbes is Calvin's dead twin brother's soul possessing a tiger doll. When Calvin/Lan get a PET, Hub/Hobbes' soul transfers itself to the PET and becomes Megaman. Susie is Mayl.
* Also, if the 'Calvin is a reality warper' theory is applied, Calvin changes the world to be vastly different, probably stemming from an interest in the internet and Japan as he grows older.
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Self explanatory.
== Uncle Max [[Name's the Same|is]] [[Ben 10
That would make Calvin Ben's and Gwen's second cousin.
* Dude... that is possibly the most awesome WMG on this page. Totally seconded.
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"Let's go exploring!" Soon after, the sled crashes for the final time. Calvin's obscene luck regarding said crashes runs out.
* Congratulations, you've written the single most depressing WMG ever.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20150304100201/http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/calvin2.gif I cried.]
* By the way, this was used as a one-off gag in ''[[Lio]]''. (''Lio'' is like
== The MOST depressing WMG ever? I can top that! ==
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* Calvin is really a gender-bent clone of [[Thousand Shinji|Thousand-Shinji!Rei]], who was sent by [[Code Geass|Future!Lelouch]] to assasinate Gandalf and'''* CLONK* '''
** We apologize for the inconvinance. The crazy troper has been subdued.
** '''* CLONK* ''' [[Monty Python and
== Hobbes is an [[
Calvin subconsciously gave him the ability to appear like normal plush toy to others (alternately, he's a plush toy turned into an imaginary friend). Quite possibly his powerful imagination gives him abilities beyond ordinary kids, similar to Mac and Goo.
== Calvin is insane. ==
He's currently in a mental hospital and everything in the comic is just a giant hallucination. All his imaginations are 'real', mainly because nothing is real. Or, maybe he continually switches between reality and hallucinations. So, Hobbes and Spaceman Spiff and all those other things aren't his imagination, he actually perceives them as real.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111130026/http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/happy-birthday-calvin.html Mars is amazing… Mars is amazing…]
== Aliens killed Calvin at the end. ==
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Alternatively, he might be going Marauder.
* It doesn't fit quite as well, but his inventions almost fit the [[Genius: The Transgression
** [[
== Calvin is a [[Genius: The Transgression
...Hence the reason Calvin has never used any of his "Inventions" on anyone other than himself: doing so would risk Havoc. It's most likely Calvin was given a crash-course in Havoc and Mania, as well as being directed to the Axioms by a member of the Peerage shortly after "The [[Noodle Incident]]", (I.E. his breakthrough).
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Hobbes : "Everything FAMILIAR has disappeared
Calvin : "A fresh clean start"
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20150304100201/http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/calvin2.gif Shortly after that, he got lost in the forest and starved to death, since there was nobody to look for him.]
* especially frightening when you consider that before the final strip, Calvin made a Snowman with an ice-cream-scoop in his back and tells Hobbes "[[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|It's a sordid story.]]" and the last time we see his parents, Mom was scolding at his Dad to "[[No Indoor Voice|Shut the door]]"
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And Hobbes is a [[Werewolf: The Forsaken|Weretiger]].
...just to round out the ''[[
== Calvin is either a [[Changeling: The Lost
What?
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* Actually, she may in fact be a super heroine/costumed vigilante after all! And knowing that her son will one day inherit her powers, or at least, she wants to push him in the crime fighter direction, she sewed a super hero costume for him allowing him to take on the alter ego of...'''STUPENDOUS MAN!'''
** The powers are related to some sort of variable gene, like in X-Men. Calvin's powers are related to genius and the ability to warp reality with his imagination within limitations (for instance, only he can ''see'' the alterations, whereas everyone else can only see the effects).
*** So Calvin has [[Theme Naming|Stupendous-]][[Hallucinations|Delirium]]? [[Blessed
**** Nah, when he grows up he'll be able to extend this power so that he can cast illusions/warp reality for ''other'' people, too. When he put his mind to it, he ''could'' make Moe see Hobbes, too.
*** She has taken away the Stupendous Man costume a few times. This was probably to teach Calvin to use his powers wisely.
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== Hobbes doesn't have to turn stuffed when anyone other than Calvin looks at him -- he just chooses to. ==
Like the toys in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', he ''can'' move around in front of other people, but is afraid that he will be confiscated and treated as a freak or shut up in a lab.
== Calvin's dad knows Hobbes and Calvin can interact, and the origin of Hobbes' capture in the first few strips is his doing. ==
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== Calvin is related to [[Winnie the Pooh|Christopher Robin]] on one of his parents' side. ==
* Option A) If it is his mother's side, it explains both Calvin's ability to interact with Hobbes and his mother's occasional manifestation of this
* Option B) If it's his father's side, it explains why Hobbes' personality is so much like Calvin's Dad's -- Hobbes is very old, made from the rags of Tigger, and has been passed down from Christopher Robin to his son, to Calvin's dad, and the personality traits run in the family, causing Hobbes to pick up on them. If this is the case, Hobbes used to be a toy of Calvin's dad, who also could communicate with Hobbes, and has memories of this even though he thinks he just made them up.
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== The identity of the famous [[Noodle Incident]] was... ==
An [[Accidental Kiss]] via spaghetti (noodles) a la ''[[Lady and
* [http://www.steph-angel.com/blog/wp-images/calvin%20and%20hobbes/noodle-incident.gif The noodle incident was clearly something morally wrong]{{Dead link}}, because Hobbes mentions it when Calvin states that he's been good all year. Those two theories just aren't bad enough.
** In that context, [
* [[User:Metalitia]]'s brother is under the impression that the [[Noodle Incident]] was a mishap either involving the brain Calvin made out of pasta for that one science project, or grossing Susie out at lunch by using manicotti to simulate his guts bursting through his chest. Somebody PLEASE help me prove him wrong. :(
** Didn't the police get involved? Or am I thinking of some other incident?
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* Calvin really wasn't responsible for the noodle incident. We know he doesn't like recieving blame for things he didn't do. He doesn't like being blamed for the noodle incident because he wasn't involved.
** Susie Derkins is probably trying to get revenge on him for something.
** [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff200/fv00125.htm It wasn't me, Mom!] [[Freefall
== The noodle incident involved Calvin breaking into the cafeteria and placing explosives inside a vat of noodles, which threw noodles all over the cafeteria's kitchen. ==
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== The guy with the glasses is not Calvin's real father. ==
He knows it, his mom knows it but is in denial, Calvin does not know for sure but has had suspicions from day one, and Hobbes may or may not be aware but is keeping quiet about it either way.
* Dammit, now I'm reading that as [[That Guy With
== Going with the above theory, Calvin's real father is [[Rocky Horror Picture Show|Rocky]]. ==
His mom is Janet, and the other guy is Brad. The reason that Calvin came out the way he is has something to do with the fact that he is the offspring of an [[Artificial Human]] with half a brain.
== Calvin has ADHD ==
Heck, he's practically the poster child for ADHD.
== Hobbes is Calvin's [[
And yes, there is such a thing as a Stand User born with a Stand (the most notable examples being Avdol, Kakyoin, N'Doul, and the D'Arby brothers). It may just have been impossible for Hobbes to manifest until Calvin got the tiger plushie, which Hobbes was able to bind himself to. And yes, there are Stands which can act and think independently of their Users (q.v. Baby Face...or at least its homonculi...Echoes Act III, Dragon's Dream, Sex Pistols, Gold Experience Requiem).
== Calvin and Hobbesis an allegory for Gnosticism. ==
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== Hobbes used to belong to Calvin's Mom. ==
As the above 'Calvin and his Mom are Gods' theory states, Calvin and his mom were most likely similar as children. And she does communicate with Hobbes twice (raccoon arc and Yukon arc anyone?). It's very possible that Hobbes was her old stuffed tiger and playmate from when she was a child, and when she lost the 'ability' to see and hear him like she used to she handed Hobbes down to Calvin.
== Calvin never ages because he has psychic powers. ==
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== We Have Entered an Endless Recursion of Time. ==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150304100201/http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/calvin2.gif And it ends, only to begin again...]
== Hobbes is actually a real person, the rest are just fantasy. ==
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* That cracks me up. You just made my week.
* I actually have a t-shirt of them as John ''Calvin'' & Thomas ''Hobbes''. For real. They sell those things. I don't know where, it was a Christmas present.
** Right [https://web.archive.org/web/20130616010712/http://www.philosophersguild.com/Calvin-and-Hobbes-T-shirt.html here.] You're welcome.
== Hobbes is [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]], or some other [[Eldritch Abomination|Great Old One]] ==
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** Keep in mind that "besting Calvin in fights" isn't all that impressive, because Calvin is a six-year-old, and Hobbes is a tiger. Also, daydreams don't qualify as insanity by a long shot; it's perfectly reasonable for a six-year-old to pretend to be a dinosaur or a space explorer.
== Calvin is a [[Genius: The Transgression
Calvins parents are retired geniuses, his father perhaps disillusioned or frightened of becoming Illuminated. When they had Calvin his mother, also retired but with far less fear/concern gave Calvin a special mane bound into a toy tiger, possibly intended to be a guardian but instead it caused Calvin to manifest his genius. His mother is actually interested in this and is studying it as Calvins reality warping is much stronger and potentially more generally useful at his age than has ever been seen (this might also be why he tends to remain in his imaginary constructs around his mom but not so around his father). His parents don't mind that he's alone frequently as it avoids him accidentally creating Igors (they might even be quietly encouraging Calvin's behavior because it means that he won't accidentally awaken or break someone who sees him doing mad science)
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** I think at some point she's established to be 16.
Of course, she's evil, (which is where Calvin gets it from) which explains first, why she keeps charging ridiculous amounts of money to babysit, and second why Calvin fears her enough to treat her like his real mom. Of course, since they're both beings of evil they understand each other to an extent, leading up to when Rosalyn spent a touching night bonding with Calvin over a game of Calvinball (much to his fosterparent's disbelief; remember, they don't know who his mom is).
Who's the father? Why, Hobbes of course. Rosalyn's into furries. And Hobbe's aiding and abbeting of Calvin's mischief is probably why Rosalyn is now dating Chuck.
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* Then, [http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/01/09/calvin-and-hobbes-off-the-ritalin-and-high-on-life/ this] happens and the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] comes right back.
== They both happened. ==
And sometime between those events, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100603040227/http://neverland-syndrome.deviantart.com/art/Calvin-and-86694273 this happened.]* The link above is now dead, but you can still view the comic via
== Susie is actually Daria Morgendorffer ==
This theory is sort of a continuation to the "Calvin dies in the last strip" and "Calvin and Susie are in love" theories. After Calvin dies, Susie is heartbroken, so her family moves to Highland to get her away from that neighborhood, and those memories. Susie/Daria recedes into her books while waiting in vain for another kid like Calvin to come along. Also, due to her family having to pack up and move so suddenly, her dad has to take the first job he finds, which explains the horrible job/boss alluded to in Boxing Daria.
* Having to deal with both Calvin and [[Beavis and Butthead]] at the same time? Poor girl.
== Calvin is a young [http://spb.fotolog.com/photo/11/60/33/mts_death666/1238119655421_f.jpg Joel Grind]{{Dead link}}. ==
== Calvin has childhood-onset schizophrenia. ==
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Calvin's dad likes bicycling so much, I could imagine him as a teenager trying to woo Calvin's mom with the idea that "nothing is more romantic than a bicycle built for two."
** That sounds less like a WMG and more like the premise for an adorable fanfiction. I suggest that Calvin's parents are named [[Genius Bonus|Joyce and Eliot.]]
***
== Calvin becomes [[The Joker]] ==
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Calvin's father, concerned about his son's development, decides that the stuffed tiger that he spends so much time with has got to go, so he decides to destroy Hobbes by cutting him to bits. Calvin watches in horror and tries to save Hobbes, but his father shoves him away, accidentally cutting the sides of his mouth in the process. A now physically and mentally scarred Calvin ends up killing his parents later on as revenge, which sets off his life of crime.
** And going by the above theories, [[Fridge Horror|that means The Joker is God.]]
== Calvin’s good duplicate is Linus ==
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Now here’s the kicker: the reason why the good duplicate is “good” is because the duplicator copied Calvin, then subtracted his overactive imagination. This is both a blessing and a curse for the duplicate when he becomes Linus: on the one hand, he’s able to form stable friendships with real people like Charlie Brown, which Calvin could never do, on the other hand, he is unable to imagine the Great Pumpkin into literal existence like Calvin did with Hobbes.
Later on, Linus managed to build a working duplicator, which is where Rerun came from.
* This WMG also explains Linus's obsession with his blanket. It's latent memories of Hobbes, manifested as a security blanket.
== Calvin's Mom is able to percieve Hobbes as "Real" ==
Mom at times does try to communicate with Hobbes, though it's brushed aside as a momentary thing. She also never tries to tell Calvin that Hobbes isn't real because not only can she not bring herself to tell her socially awkward six-year old to give up the only true friend he has, she can't convince herself that Hobbes is merely a stuffed toy.
== Calvin is a young Doctor Horrible ==
And if it's true that they are both split personalities,
Calvin's personalities changed,
and Doctor Horrible and Billy formed,
Does that mean Calvin and Hobbes still exist in some corner of Doctor horrible's mind?
== Calvin's Mother's Side of the Family is Made of [[Harry Potter (
His maternal grandma is the sister of Draco Malfoy's grandfather. She moved to America and married a Muggle to rebel against the Malfoys (who Calvin get's his blonde hair from). Hobbes and the other "imaginary" events are actually underaged magic caused by Calvin, who is extremely powerful by wizarding standards. The vents are disguised from Muggles by a variation on the Disillusionment Charm cast by Mom.
Calvin will become a Gryffindor. Susie might also be a witch, but she pretends to be normal and straight laced to hide this. Calvin being blasted into the air and having his clothes knocked off in their snowball fights are her underaged magic.
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Hey, he could have matured. Although, given how Calvin talks about 1988 whenever he shows his dad the latest polls...
== Calvin is [[Haruhi Suzumiya
== Calvin is in some way related to [[Phineas and Ferb]]. ==
Think about it. Eccentric imaginations, possible time lords, and they have anthrophomorphic animals as friends. (Perry and Hobbes).
AND if you follow one of the guesses above, [[Calvin and Hobbes]], [[Phineas and Ferb]], and [[
== Hobbes is a malignant stand (a la Jojo'sBizarreAdventure). ==
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Calvin's mum moves again, back to her home state. She decides to go back to college, gets her degree in English Literature and gets a part-time job at the local paper, as a writer. Realising that life is short, she gets into contact with her grandmother again, but the relationship is still somewhat strained. She meets a man named Roger Fox. Calvin's mum gets pregnant, and so they get married. Calvin's mum is 26. She gives birth to a healthy young boy named Peter.
Two years later, Paige comes along, and then Jason.
Calvin's mum is still saddened by the death of her last husband. She knows that junk food caused his untimely demise, and so swears to only cook healthy foods, so her children remain healthy. Proving that old habits die hard, she continues to keep the thermostat low during the winter.
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== Calvin grows up to be [[Gurren Lagann|Kamina]] ==
[http://i35.tinypic.com/25roxup.jpg Perhaps the greatest evidence for this is in the strip where Calvin's out shopping with Hobbes and his mom, and Hobbes is watching him try on sunglasses. Notice anything familiar about the pair he's seen wearing as his mom sends him back to the rack?] Additionally, they're both adventurous, boistrous, loudmouthed, and violent. Also, look at Calvin's hair - three spikes sticking up. Now look at Kamina's - three spiky bangs over the forehead. Therefore, eventually he decided to slick that part down. Not to mention that Kamina's tactics are pretty much [[Indy Ploy
After the events of the strip, as Calvin got older, some cataclysm occured that caused humanity to move underground, however, Calvin's father, being the character-building "no-pain-no-gain" advocate he is, insisted on returning to the surface. Calvin declined, but as time went on, he resented his choice, and went on his path of ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWA, creating a new identity for himself by dyeing his hair blue, getting tattoos, and getting around to buying a pair of sunglasses just like the ones he coveted as a child, in addition to renaming himself Kamina. Hobbes was his [[Team Pet]] and equivalent of Boota until they were parted somehow some time before he met Simon and went on his adventures with him. Eventually, however, having forgot his childhood membership of '''G'''et '''R'''id '''O'''f '''S'''limy Girl'''s''', he ended up falling in love with Yoko until they kissed. This triggered memories of his old club, which set him off-course for a little while, a condition that ultimately costed him his life, but not before he became a great hero of mankind and motivated his young pupil to take over Team Dai-Gurren and save the universe.
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== Calvin's mother is nicknamed Meg. ==
In one strip, Calvin gets out of the bathtub and pretends to be [[Godzilla]]. He refers to his mom as [
* Of course, this is a reference to ''[
== Calvin grows up to be [[Beavis and
They're both blonde-haired juvenile delinquents, and let's face it, a lot of the stuff Beavis does is stuff that Calvin would do if anyone let him. In particular, Calvin has repeatedly attempted to get his hands on explosives, and Beavis loves blowing things up and/or setting them on fire. Eventually, as Calvin entered his teenage years, he left Hobbes behind, but without Hobbes to keep him under control and counteract his impulses, he became even worse than he was already, going about with Butthead to set things on fire and play frog baseball. Note that in the [[Wonderful Life]] episode, it turns out that without Butthead, Beavis would be a fairly normal child. Cornholio is a leftover from Calvin's childhood alter-egos. Beavis, thus, is his last name. Butthead may or may not be an older Moe, seeing as they look somewhat similar.
** Don't buy it. Calvin is ''way'' smarter than Beavis.
*** Being around someone so moronic as Butthead instead of a sophisticated friend like Hobbes will do that to you.
== Calvin is a [[Homestuck
Specifically, he's an albino, which is why he doesn't have black hair and grey skin. He does, however, have spiky hair, which seems to be a common troll trait. Calvin was born with his abnormal colouration, which was declared to be an adverse trait and he was selected for culling, but he somehow managed to escape with his lusus, Hobbes, although his horns were broken off in the process. They ended up on a spaceship that travelled through a wormhole, bringing him to a planet in another dimension in the future - Earth. There, as he resembled an ordinary human child, he was adopted by a human family. Calvin must be a redblood to explain why he never gave anything away when he got hurt, and thus was born with redblood psychic powers, manifesting in him unconciously creating illusions to make his lusus look like a stuffed animal to everyone else. His [[Foe Yay]] with Susie is his interpretation of kismesisship - since he was raised by a species without that concept, he doesn't know the details, but his inborn psychology sees hate as a type of romance. Spaceman Spiff is his recollections of being a citizen of an intergalactic empire, and he sees monsters under his bed because he doesn't have a recuperacoon to prevent the nightmares that naturally affect his species. The top evidence here is that in one strip, Calvin, at Hobbes's suggestion, asks his mom if he was ever a grub. What Hobbes knows and his mother doesn't is that he actually ''was''.
* Actually, he asked his Mum because his Dad told him that he was a grub and pupated at age 2. When she said he didn't he goes back to his Dad and says "You'd better get your stories straight with Mom, Mr. Britannica!"
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== Calvin eventually became a math whiz ==
Calvin outgrew his difficulties with mathematics and other school subjects... and thus he created CALVINHAMMER, GOD AMONG SPORTS!
== Theories as to what the "Noodle Incident" really was. ==
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== ''Calvin and Hobbes'' and ''[[Garfield]]'' take place in the same universe. ==
The connection is [http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/Lyman Lyman]. He disappears from ''Garfield'' in 1983, then a few years later reappears in ''Calvin & Hobbes''. Lyman is Calvin's [https://web.archive.org/web/20090414044914/http://calvin.doriennesmith.com/comics/28.php Uncle Max]: his full name is Max Lyman. The evidence is that [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iRE1f7T37Zk/TU_ELSUX_PI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/5t-hEW8zlN8/s1600/14.+Imaginary+Friend.gif Max] and [http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lyman.jpg Lyman] look the same, and have a similar sartorial taste. The few differences between the two (such as Max's bigger nose) can be explained by different artistic impressions of the same character. Max's hairline has receded somewhat since he was living with Jon, but there are years between his disappearance from Garfield and reappearance in Calvin & Hobbes, so that certainly could've happened. Max being Lyman also explain why he's [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iRE1f7T37Zk/TU_ELSUX_PI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/5t-hEW8zlN8/s1600/14.+Imaginary+Friend.gif worried about Calvin's imaginary friend], and why he says that all of his friends might've been imaginary too. When he was living Jon, they were caught up in a [
== Either Calvin or Hobbes is a [[Doctor Who
The TARDIS is the cardboard box, because it has been used to time travel on two separate occasions. And the [[Magic Carpet]] that Calvin and Hobbes once used is the TARDIS that has changed form.
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While Calvin's parents are questioning whether this kid is really their son, notice how Susie looks like a young version of Mom, and shares Dad's romantic imagination, bad temper, and mischievous streak.
* More support for this theory: both Mom and Dad have dark hair, while Calvin's hair is blond.
** Having a blond child with dark-haired parents isn't that uncommon.
== [[Diabolus Ex Machina|Calvin gets lost in the woods and dies of hypothermia]]. ==
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== Calvin's time machine also allowed travel to parallel universes, accidentally or by design. ==
As you can see here:
== Calvin grows up to be Willy Wonka ==
I really hate all these theories saying horrible things about how Calvin is insane or something and grows up to be the Joker or [[Fight Club]] guy. calvin isn't crazy, he just has an incredible IMAGINATION. Which is why I think he'd grow up to be Willy Wonka. The cardboard box is the prototype for his great glass elevator. You may say that [[Charlie and
== The snowstorm from the last strip killed (almost) everyone, leaving Calvin and Hobbes as the only survivors. ==
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== Calvin is Q Jr. from Star Trek: Voyager... ==
And Q is Hobbes! After the Continuum told Q he had to stay by his son's side for the rest of eternity, Q created this version of Earth. He may have made it as an attempt to reign in his son a little, or maybe he just made it to have fun. It allows for all the seemingly impossible things that happen (such as evil bikes and baseballs, and I swear those duplicates Calvin made with just a cardboard box really existed), and it lets everyone stay the same age year after year. Maybe the rest of the inhabitants, such as Mom, Dad, and Uncle Max, are actually closer to holodeck characters than actual beings.
** The transmogrofier then malfunctioned and turned Hobbes into a donkey...dragon...''THING'', and he became evil, [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
== Calvin is a [[Gender Bender|Gender Bended]] [[Pokémon 3
An obnoxious, overly imgainative, blond kid, and a imaginary but extremely lifelike wild cat. It's obvious.
** Oh yes, and Uncle Max was sucked into the Unknown portal.
== Hobbes is distantly related to the [[Doctor Who
Whenever anyone except Calvin sees him, he turns into a stuffed animal.
== Calvin grows up to be [[
Just a thought. I mean, seriously! check out some of these things [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109164111/http://skippyslist.com/list/ and tell me that they don't sound like Calvin]. Especially number 142.
== Calvin grows up to be Spaceman Spiff ==
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== [[Calvin and Hobbes]] takes place in a world where people have no imagination. ==
This is a good guess on the fact that everyone thinks Calvin is so weird, they have no imagination! After the final strip, they called the government to take Calvin away and see what in the world was wrong with him, and, after examining him for quite some time, they realized that Calvin was happy when he was being creative, (his various inventions, his amusing snowmen), so they had everyone in town and used a special device to implant imagination into their heads, and Calvin's town became a much better place, and Calvin was hailed as a hero.
== Calvin is an alternate, male version of [[
Hobbes is real, and is there because of Calvin opening tears between his Earth and his own...the lack of training with this though could explain why Hobbes can only be seen by him.
* Oh, and the time travel adventures are real, the power to go there was just in him the whole time.
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