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== All the recent drama is a lead towards a [[Downer Ending]] for the comic. ==

 

# Ethan "rescues" Lilah in some overly contrived ridiculousness that only Mr. [[Anti-Sue]] Ethan could accomplish.

# Lilah returns on her own after finding out that Ethan is the right one for her after all.

 

Why would the last option be the one? Because Buckley doesn't seem like the type to go for overly cliche romantic schmaltz (well... ''even more'' overly cliche romantic schmaltz than usual), which is where the comic would have to go in order to restore the [[Status Quo Is God|Status Quo]]. Since Buckley has performed the awkward tonal shift of [[Cerebus Syndrome]] without so much as looking back, he seems to be trying to resolve the main storyline.

* Alternatively, Ethan and Lilah are now happily married and owners of a game shop. Seeing as their marriage was the last time we saw them, they probably now live [[Happily Ever After]]. The rest of the comic is now one-shots and Choose-Your-Own Adventures.

 

Alternatively, he's been hallucinating all this time due to the bad cereal he eats. Lilah was never interested in him, and his brain has been censoring both it and the existence of her real boyfriend. Sort of a reverse [[Fight Club|Tyler Durden]], if you will.

 

== The story is over for the main characters. ==

 

== When Zeke is rebuilt, he won't be Zeke anymore, just a generic X-Bot. ==

Since the person who usually suffers from Zalgo infection is Lilah, she must have made a deal with some ungodly terror to have another baby and/or help Ethan become successful. The happy B^U, B^D is just a facade she puts up to keep Ethan happy, or he's just [[Too Dumb to Live|too dumb to notice anything strange is going on.]]

* Actually, this "Zalgo" is just [[Memetic Mutation|something that the internet came up with.]]

 

== Ethan is a [[Girl Genius|Spark]] ==

== Cad is set in the [[Assassin's Creed]] universe ==

Ethan is in possession of a Piece of Eden, the [[MacGuffin]] being fought over that is used to brainwash people. This explains why people still somehow like him and the universe generally bends to his will. Rory is an Assassin and the mobsters chasing after him are Templars trying to silence him. Ethan may or may not be a Templar- on one hand the Templars are wealthy, powerful and successful so maybe not, on the other hand they're all [[Card-Carrying Villain]] and all round dicks so Ethan would fit in.

 

== Ethan is a character in an [[Adam Sandler]] movie. ==

That's why he can act like such an irresponsible [[Jerkass]] and still get a pretty woman, friends, and villains that manage to one up his douche-iness.

 

Both series have:

* An idiot protagonist who, despite being borderline retarded and always drunk (using his Irish heritage as a scapegoat), is a total [[Anti-Sue]] (Peter/Ethan)

* An episode/strip that mocks religion (Not All Dogs Go to Heaven/Gamer Religion Arc)

* An episode/strip based on prenatal death (Abandoned abortion episode/Loss)

Q.E.D. [[Plagiarism]]

 

It's a commonly known fact that the characters in CAD are one-sided; Ethan is our wacky video gamer, Lucas is a snarky gamer, Lilah is a girl gamer, and Zeke is a "stupid meatbags" robot gamer. If Lilah was to have the baby, then Tim would actually have to work to characterize the child, sacrificing some of his "monkey cheese" humor to do so. So what did he do? He wrote out the little McManus the only way he knew how.

* So wait, you're saying Zeke is a bot?

 

== Ethan lives in a series of time loops. ==

The best way for them not to suffer from it is to have Ethan go far away from them.

 

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