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== Clover is an amphibian alien; [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudis_paradoxa:Pseudis paradoxa|Pseudis paradoxa]] style ==
Its parents will come and will be the size of a regular house.
 
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* Doesn't really explain how Clover could silently sneak up ''on the camera'', though. Were its microphones ringing too?
 
== The image of the monster was altered by the goverment when they found the tape. The monster actually is [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|Donkey Kong Jesus Riding A Puff of Smoke]] ==
And the Nostalgia Critic is [[Agent Mulder|the only one who knows the truth]].
 
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* And this explains MC Hammer's apparent retirement. Everyone knows he's too legit to quit -- he really just went into seclusion and a decade-long [[Training Montage]] in order to prepare himself for the day the "Hammertime Protocol" would be needed.
 
== Alternatively, Hammerdown refers to [[DoctorDr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog (Web Video)|Captain Hammer]]. ==
Captain Hammer was the final line of defense against Clover and the bridge collapsing was the result of him landing on it from the drop pod in the bomber. "It's Still Alive" refers to Captain Hammer since he is invulnerable and thus is ultimately victorious, the fighting leveled New York to the ground unfortunately.
 
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== The monster is a tilt-a-whirl. ==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141227015043/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080129 'Nuff said].
 
== Hammerdown is [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|an N2 Mine]] ==
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== Kishin (the boy from the ''Cloverfield'' manga) is psychically linked to the Monster ==
On the [http://picasaweb.google.com/dennisacevedo/CloverfieldKishinMangaPart1/photo#5156370187358871922 final page]{{Dead link}} of the first chapter, what is presumably the Monster rises out of the water just as Kishin breaks down. This could mean that the Monster is somehow powered by people's despair.
 
== The monster is [[Lost|Ben Linus]] performing a [[One Winged Angel|One-Winged Angel]] act, probably with the Smoke Monster's "help". ==
It's more than a little likely that "Smokey" is some kind of [[Sealed Evil in A Can|Sealed Evil in a Can]]. It turned on Ben, who has recently been shown trying to use the monster to his own devices; it absorbed him, and together they became "Clover". This explains why Clover looks ''just'' anthropomorphic enough to be thought-provoking. The whole movie is a flash-forward to the aftermath of the events in "Lost".
* As for the parasites, perhaps Ben had... Lyme Disease... Or he ate a [[Futurama|gas station egg sandwich]].
** Ben spent/spends all that time running around the island, getting the hell beaten out of him by everyone. No wonder he is sickly.
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* Sadly, this theory seems to have been Jossed by... the reveals in Season Six. Then again, {{spoiler|we still don't know if Smokey is limited to only appearing as dead people or a Sad Day Cloud...}}
 
== The Monster is the [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy|Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal]]! ==
And while it attacks New York, it is making a very good meal ''of'' visiting tourists!
* Oh the fools! If only they'd remembered their towels!
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== Clover is somehow related to the Chimera from ''[[Resistance]]: Fall of Man''. ==
[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]. They look nearly the same.
 
== The monster is a lhurgoyf. ==
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* Not again.
 
== The Cloverfield document was uncovered from a future-viewing experiment, and the United States destroyed [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_193:USA 193|USA 193]] to stop it from awakening the monster ==
Think about it: There was the satellite or space junk that crashed into the ocean off Coney Island at the end of the movie (during the flashback). The United States Military found out about the events of "Cloverfield" through a future-viewing experiment. They then destroyed the Spy Satellite to stop it from ever waking up the monster.
* The biggest risk was that enough satellite debris would get through the atmosphere to make the future-viewing experiment a [[Self -Fulfilling Prophecy]].
 
== Rob is still alive. ==
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The US military has gained control over that indefinable area where all mallets come from. They planned to suck the monster into it, or return it there. The monster's having control over Hammerspace would explain how it manages to sneak around New York. Also, it explains the survival of the camera. 
 
== Cloverfield is an alternate universe version of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' ==
This explains Beth's incredible healing abilities and Marlena surviving for as long she did. This explains the other girl's ability to run across half of Manhattan in high heels. This explains why the military soldier is willing to let three untrained civilians run off into hostile territory to rescue a friend - he could tell there was no point in stopping them. After all, Rob controls vast amounts of energy. That's how he could talk to his mom on the cell phone through six tons of debris. That's why Hude's video camera kept working for so long - Rob wanted it to.
 
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* Dude, everyone's scared by yaoi fanfiction. Some more than others.
** Alternative: Clover was running away from a combination of Godzilla and yaoi. After all, Godzilla must be gettin pretty lonely...
*** [[Dude, Not Funny|Your theory is bad and you should feel bad.]]
 
== Hammerdown is, in fact, [[Giant Robo|Alberto the Shockwave]] ==
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* If Alberto could stop the Eye of Volger, THEN HE CAN STOP CLOVER!!
 
== The monster is the Dreaming God from ''[[Pathways Intointo Darkness]]'' ==
Cloverfield takes place after the game, in a continuity in which the player in PID failed to detonate the nuke. The Dreaming God is awake and has begun spreading chaos across the Earth. Hammerdown is a contingency plan developed before the events of the game in case of failure, in which a bomb is dropped onto the monster instead of being placed there by ground forces. The monster is "still alive" at the end in that the bomb only stunned it to delay it until the Jjaro can arrive and deal with it, as was the plan in the game.
 
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Sera and Earth are the same planet, but almost all records were destroyed by the Scorched Earth Plan. Hammerdown is another one of the satilites used in this, less known than The Hammer of Dawn. Clover is part of the Emergance Day attack.
 
== Clover was created by [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|GlaDOS]] and was in fact originally Chell ==
The monster was [[G La DOSGLaDOS]]' master plan all along. She intended for Chell to escape because [[G La DOSGLaDOS]] had treated Chell with a special serum that would make her mutate over time into a creature that could wreak havoc on the world that spurned an insane AI. This explains how at the end of the movie the monster is Still Alive
 
== Clover was a [[Transformers Film Series|Decepticon experiment]] that got out of hand ==
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== Cloverfield is set in the same universe as [[Stephen King]]'s "The Mist" ==
Clover looks quite like the [http://www.kidreviewer.com/uploaded_images/MistMonster-756763.jpg massive monster] seen towards the end of The Mist, and the parasites resemble the odd creatures that assault the convenience store. Maybe the Cloverfield incident was caused by the Arrowhead project? The Mist itself could have just been a local phenomenon, caused by the lake and the experiment, so it didn't affect New York City. Or maybe a variant of the experiment happened somewhere close, at a military base. WMG, indeed.
* Alternatively, the [[Death World|alternate]] [[Alien Geometries|dimension]] is opened by [[Oh Crap|a significant amount]] [[Kill It Withwith Water|of water.]]
 
== Clover is actually an overly mutated [[Epileptic Tree]]. == 
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== Expanding on the above theory: The Monster is Wally pulling a One Winged Angel. ==
Wally, for those not in the know, is the Green Monster (or at least the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of same). He is the cuddly, lovable costumed Red Sox mascot, and, [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_the_Green_Monster:Wally the Green Monster|as you can see]], he would not look out of place at all hanging out with Grover and Elmo on ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]''. (He is also one of the few MLB mascots who doesn't appear to be designed to [[Nightmare Valley|scare children]].) ''Cloverfield'' documents his [[Berserk Button|reaction]] to [[Face Heel Turn|Johnny Damon joining the Yankees]]...
 
== Hammerdown is the Goldion Hammer. ==
[[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar|Obligatory link to home series.]] I can't believe that you people couldn't think of that
 
== Clover is the [[Yellow Submarine (Animation)|Blue Meanies]]' genetically engineered anti-music weapon, escaped from Pepperland. ==
And the Hammerdown protocol is [[The Beatles (Musicband)|Maxwell and his Silver Hammer]].
 
== "It's Still Alive" refers to the monster's [[Mama Bear|mother]], not Clover itself. ==
At the end credits of the film, the static message played backwards claims [[Sequel Hook|"It's still alive"]]. But [[Word of God|Abrams]] himself has stated that the monster was killed by the Hammerdown Protocol, so [[Fridge Logic|what's that clip doing in the movie?]] There are two reasons - a simple one and a clever one.
# Clover ''is'' "still alive" and Abrams was half asleep when he made the statement. You can just imagine Bryan Burk and Drew Goddard looking at each other in confusion, can't you?
# The audio clip was recorded from a radio broadcast and inserted into the film as part of the sightings. Where it came from is not stated, but it can't refer to a monster that's [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|dead,]] now, can it? It must obviously refer to the mother, as the ''Kishin'' Manga shows the monster either dying or going to sleep next to her eggs, from which Clover himself would have been born.
** Abrams states that Clover's rampage is just a frightened search for it's mother. Therefore, it is my guess that the mothers look after their young, and the two became seperated somehow while flattening Manhattan together in search of food (see the WMG on that theory). The baby was killed by the [[Nuke 'Em|Hammerdown]] Protocol, but the mother survived and managed to flatten the guy who made the broadcast. Sequel, anyone?
# [[Rule of Three|I'm overthinking this and really need a cup of tea right now.]]
 
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It's found in water areas of the game, who's to say it didn't make its way out of the pokeverse and into New York?
 
== Hammerdown is [[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Alex Mercer]] ==
It makes sense, I mean Alex is effectively invincible, and Clover looks an awful lot like the Hunters (only a lot bigger). ** Also Clover is WHITELIGHT, We have black and redlight, it makes sense.
 
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Don't you think that the brief glances of the monster looks like a rancor?
 
== The monster is a [[Dungeons and& Dragons|Tarrasque]]. ==
It sleeps for long periods of time, is huge, and is destroying everything nearby. It must be a baby and thats why its looking for its mom, it doesn't know that there is only one at a time, and the reason that they said its still alive is that the new one respawned.
 
== The monster is [[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Lavos]]. ==
It bears a striking resemblance to Lavos' second form, having the same skin color, inflating/deflating sacs on the sides of its head, and odd, stretched-out-looking arms. It also slept beneath Earth's surface for a great deal of time. 
 
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== The "satellite" that fell is actually... ==
 
...[[JojosJoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged|the knocked-apart cockpit of Joseph Jostar's plane from part two of JJBA.]] You can just imagine him screaming about FUCKING PIRANHAS in the background of the ferris wheel scene.
 
== The entire film is Hud's dream or delusion while he is passed out at the party. ==
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Only in a dream or a delusion would the events that occurred in this movie have made any "sense."
 
== Clover is or was thought to be a result of a prototype [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Aperture Science experiment]] ripping a hole into the other world of Stephen King's ''[[The Mist]]''. ==
Because Clover coincidentally started smashing up New York City at roughly the same time that the underground labs activated their (non-functional) portal device, the scientists (and [[The Cavalry|the military]] [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=2xi425zfjjlo3sfyde96r6c0 that they had on standby]) think they just re-enacted [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Mist]]''. "It's Still Alive" is a result of their computer replaying a clip of HUD's voice that it had captured earlier, which explains why the voice was backmasked. Later, after determining the separation of Cloverfield from the Aperture project, the newly created Aperture Science Laboratories used the computer's information as part of the disc-operated part of [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|GLaDoS]] (wanting as much information on previous projects as they could get).
 
== the monster ''is'' only a baby, and now his mother is very angry at the humans. ==
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== Clover is an [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Angel]], but this doesn't go where you think... ==
* In this world, the US government reasons that the only thing that beat an angel is a God, therefore the government comissions the construction of [[Humongous Mecha]] with the firepower to curb stomp angels. Since they are effectively "giant gods" to seperate them from the regular robots, or the [[EV As]]EVAs used by japan, each robot is referred to as a "[[The Big O (Anime)|Megadeus]]", which literally means "giant god". However, once the angels are gone, things get a little out of hand... 
 
== Cloverfield is a prequel to ''[[Planet of the Apes]].'' ==
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The nuke did detonate (though it didn't kill the beast) only for Clover's owner to come back and bring him to the ethereal realm from which he came.
 
== This movie is a parallel story to [[Battle: Los Angeles]]. ==
Instead of a mass infantry invasion and combined arms security operation, the aliens tried some sort of ecological invasion, unleashing a third-party alien species or two onto Earth. What we're watching, really, is Battle New York. And, as many have theorized, we either lost New York (the "Clover's Still Alive!" crowd) or it was a [[Pyrrhic Victory]] for the humans, with millions of civilians, and a major metropolitan area destroyed. 
This is supported by the last shot you see of Rob and Beth at Coney Island. Many have pointed out the object that falls into the water. Watch it closely; it slows down before impact, just like the meteorites the aliens in Los Angeles used to land outside of Los Angeles did.
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== Hammerdown is Rainbow Dash ==
Someone had to.
== Hammerdown is the government's codename for [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]]: the biggest [[Badass]] ever. ==
J.J. Abrams' projects all take place in the same universe? That must include the "Superman: Flyby" film he was working on for a while back in 2002. It looked very cool, and though it was never made, that doesn't mean it never happened. Superman [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|incapacitates]] Clover, who is then taken in by the government. It probably has something to do with [[Mind Screw|LOST]], and then due to discovering the interstellar warp travel technology Clover used to get to Earth and cross referencing it with Kal-El's own mangled prototype from his childhood, [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]] eventually becomes possible.
 
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