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This theory came up on the game's official forum, but the thread has been at least temporarily lost.
The idea is that the events of IWBTG take place entirely inside The Kid's imagination. In reality, he lives with his highly abusive father and copes with the pain by playing classic Nintendo games. Thus, these games form the backdrop of his imagined adventure in which he, equipped only with his very small gun (because he's just a kid and [[Freud Was Right]]), seeks to defeat his father and upgrade to a much larger gun, thus becoming The Guy (that is, a man) and leaving his tragic childhood behind.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140605151320/http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/forums/index.php?topic=763.0 Full theory here]
* <Kayin> IWBTG DEFINITELY has freudian themes though. I dunno about the rest though
== The Kid, The Guy, And Grandfather The Guy are ''all the same person.'' ==
Upon defeating his "father", The Guy warped space and time to protect himself from anyone who might challenge his position. This also brought ''his past self'' into the battle; who made the same assumption that this was his father, and that his father killed "his" father. The Kid kills The Guy, who then becomes the Guy and is killed in retaliation by the Kid.
* Alternatively, Grandfather The Guy killed The Guy's grandfather, and The Guy set about on his original quest to avenge his grandfather. Likewise, The Kid, after becoming The Guy, will see his kid try to kill him to become The Guy. In other words, it's an endless loop spread through countless generations of revenge and becoming The Guy.
** Every time the game is played represents one such generation. The Guy even mentions he has more than one child. Everytime you die, that was a child who didn't make it. This family has a ''lot'' of kids.
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**** What bothers me is the idea that I've been fighting a war all this time...and I don't even know who either side is.
* My...my God. That's just similar enough to the Ray Bradbury story "The Last Child Under the Mountain" (in which a video game is actually the government's missile launch system) to be plausible...
* No no no, [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|Camp Half-Blood]] created it to find demigods. Anyone who beats it on Impossible obviously has superhuman reflexes and is extremely obsessive.
== The game is cursed. ==
Practically all of the [[Let's Play|Let's Players]] who tried to play this game either gave up partway through or stopped being a part of the Let's Play community shortly after completion. Obviously, there's something in the game's coding that saps away at the initiative and motivation of whoever plays it.
* They're called giant cherries.
** No, they're called Delicious Fruit.
* Hey, who said you could post a plausible theory?
** OBJECTION! There's at least one guy who LPed this game and made it through. It's not that hard to find on Youtube.
*** What he's specifically talking about are well-known LPers who, after completing the game, basically quit being well-known LPers. Two examples I can think of are Cloud8745 and UltraJMan, both of whom are on [[YouTube]]. Cloud8745 closed his [[YouTube]] account entirely, and UltraJMan, though still active on [[YouTube]], lost a lot of his LPer clout. Long story short, both of them quit being classy not too long after playing this game.
**** UltraJMan also became ''very'' embittered with the LP community as a whole, essentially becoming a bane to both the [[YouTube]] ''and'' [[Something Awful]] LP communities. So, clearly, the game was created with a curse preventing anyone from trying to speedrun and/or LP it, lest their will be broken and they either vanish from the face of the internet or fall into [[Small Name, Big Ego]] madness.
** ''[[Retsupurae|Please Stop Let's Playing I Wanna Be]] - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vms1rY9gmZw Thank you God! It stopped you! Look at that - the game doesn't even want you doing this!]''
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Self-explainatory
* If that was the case, I'd have been arrested for wiping out the entire population of South America.
** Dear God! It's the video game equivalent of a [[
*** It'd only be worse if every time we lost, an entire universe got destroyed a la Bokurano.
**** How do we know that DOESN'T happen?
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== I Wanna Be the Guy takes place in the Homestarrunner 'verse, and Stinkoman is The Kid's sucessor. ==
Where else could such stupid stuff happen but in the Homestar Runner univirse?
Anyway, The Kid remains as "The Guy" untill sometime around the year 20X6, when Stinkoman beats him and becomes the new "The Guy".
Three reasons for this theory:
* 1-Up says Stinkoman is "The Guy"
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== The events of ''Bowser's Inside Story'' took place during Bowser's time as the Guy ==
All Guys are [[Badass]], and let's face it, you've never seen him so [[Badass]] before or since this game (Well, also [[
* <Kayin> Okay [[Ascended Fanon|thats canon now]]
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* Or one of the kids from the implied sequel ''I Wanna Save The Kids'', the [[Escort Mission]] from hell (even more so than most escort missions).
* Or it turns out you've been playing on Medium all this time.
* [[There Are No Girls
** [[wikipedia:Imagine (video game series)|Don't even joke about that.]]
* Strangely, this troper has actually seen an image on [[Image Board|deviantART]] called "I Wanna Be the Girl". It features girls from ''[[
== The game leads you to another planet. ==
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{{spoiler|The Guy is The Kid's father}}, and the levels certainly put the player through Hell, to say nothing of how The Kid must feel running and jumping through them. That kind of hellish level design can only be from the mind of Satan. And because of their relationship, that would mean that The Kid is trying to conquer Hell from {{spoiler|his father}}. In a twist, though, whoever becomes The Guy has his will bent to be Satan's (as the current Guy's will after beating his predecessor Grandfather The Guy), meaning that once The Kid wins, he becomes Satan. The truly happy ending comes when {{spoiler|that last Delicious Fruit kills The New Guy, and therefore Satan is dead. Or trapped in a giant cherry and unable to do anything but sit there, either way.}}
== The Kid has an [[Galaxy Quest
It activates automatically if he is killed.
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It makes sense. No matter how many times you die (which is a lot of times) you come back with only progress lost, because you're already dead. Every screen contains either death traps or massively powerful enemies, things a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] would love to get through. Defeating The Guy means you become The Guy, because you've proven you're better than he is.
== ''I Wanna Be The Guy'''s creator is [[
The first and most obvious piece of evidence is the heavy usage of ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' music. (''Guilty Gear'' being ''[[
== IWBTG is the game version of ''[[Captain N]]''. ==
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* Because, after becoming The Guy, beating up Sephiroth and Chaos should be easy (also amusing).
== In-universe, all the fangames are the product of [[Banjo
The story didn't end after The Kid defeated The Guy.
Then came [[I Wanna Be the Fangame]] and the threat of {{spoiler|Sticky Keys}} loomed near. The Kid, now the new The Guy, finds himself responsible to keep his new domain safe. And then came another fangame, [[Follow the Leader|and another, and another and another]], each one forcing the kid through hell once again, [[Meat Boy
It makes sense that L.O.G. created I Wanna Be The Guy when bored and as a kind of deranged joke to piss people off. He wanted it done quickly so he threw content from his other creations into the mix along with few original content. He didn't expect it to be popular , but after he found out people liked it, he went off to create more sequels to the game, not caring wether the kid wanted to keep going or not.
Put yourself in the Kid's shoes now, after conquering the worst obstacles , defeating The Guy and accomplishing your life's dream you'd expect it much easier from now on. Guess again, trouble keeps coming your way, and no matter how many times you succeed, more painful obstacles will always await you. And the worst thing is, [[Fate Worse Than Death|you have infinite lives]]. If I was The Kid, I'd be pissed at whoever is putting me through this crap, and who is doing that now in the world of videogames? Lord Of Games!
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