Grand Unifying Guesses/Computer Simulations
The following stories take place within different versions of the same computer simulation in Computer!Windy's database:
- The Matrix,
- Homestar Runner, hence the complete lack of a fourth wall and the wonky physics, especially after the introduction of 423,827 computer viruses. Homsar is The One.
- Saved By the Bell, hence the fact that the entire known universe is part of Bayside High.
- Groundhog Day
- For that matter, any story that uses a Groundhog Day Loop without offering some in-universe explanation. (Except Run Lola Run.)
- The Big O (and, possibly by extension, the 1980 Flash Gordon movie)
- There is at least a theoretical chance that The Matrix is also Instrumentality, which would add all guesses in that listing (below) to this guess, and vice versa.
- Could said simulation be the holodeck? If so, and the Matrix is Instrumentality which is also purgatory, then Star Trek is purgatory and by extension, so is Doctor Who.
- The Ring. Samara's obviously a rogue program in one of the earlier iterations of the Matrix.
- Lyoko in Code Lyoko
- The entire .hack franchise...
- Haruhi Suzumiya (and by extension, anyone who is a younger version of her, plus Mick Foley)
- Real Life!
- It got really buggy in The Mothman Prophecies.
- The "real world" of The Matrix could well be a long-post-Judgement-Day Terminator world, if you discount the Animatrix shorts.
- Maybe the Matrix Movies exist inside the Matrix presumably to make simulation theorists look crazy, and the Animatrix shorts were created by the robots in order to distract people from the TRUTH!!!
- Super Sentai
- ...and by extension Power Rangers.
- The Skeleton Key. All the hoodoo and Grand Theft Me is mind-hacking.
- The Twilight Town simulation in Kingdom Hearts II
- And the entirety of the digitized journal in Kingdom Hearts coded.
- Boy Meets World. George Feeny is this version's equivalent to The Oracle.