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* Then one can safely concludes that Eames is a MGS fanboy, since this level is hosted by him. This explains his unparalleled badassery throughout the film because he had Solid Snake as a role model.

** I had this same theory, but I assumed that Eames, with his ability to assume any persona within the dream, just really wanted to be Decoy Octopus.

** Considering Bond has always been a big inspiration for MGS, I think we're just looking at two things that used the same inspiration.

* Out of curiosity, does anyone remember why the dream-insertion technology was invented in the first place? That's right, [[Metal Gear Solid 2|to allow the American military to train soldiers in VR environments that would closely simulate actual combat.]]

== All a dream. ==

Everything is a dream, including the real world. More of your standard twist than the much better one above. Made slightly better by the idea that one of the main characters could actively be using inception on another, likely the lead.

** Well, {{spoiler|the film ended right as the totem stopped spinning, so this theory does hold water}}

*** You don't actually see the top stop at any point in the movie. It's always interrupted by falling off something or someone walking into the room.

The children are a kind of totem, but the test of their "balance" is not being unable to see their faces but being able to see that only one is blond like Cobb while the other is brunette like Mal, and that they haven't aged. This explains the subverted convention that Ariadne helps Cobb get over Mal and then ends up with him-- while he might think he's old enough to be her father, she knows he is actually her father. Both her parents are dream masters, after all, perhaps she eagerly followed in their footsteps and became a prodigy.

* Given that we're never actually told how long Cobb has been out of the country, this is actually a cool idea. Doesn't explain how her name went from being Phillipa to Ariadne, though. Witness protection program, maybe?

* But he talks to his children, both of them, on the telephone in the hotel. They still sound fairly young. And it'd be silly to use a person as a totem because other people can readily touched/pick up a person, and fabricate them in a dream.

* This would require that Miles somehow lose track of one of his grandchildren without noticing it, and come to begin teaching her, or for him to be in on the whole thing, both of which would kind of weird.

* This actually makes sense; also, by the same logic, Cobb and Mal killing themselves by freight train didn't bring them back to reality, the timer just ran out.

 

 

C'mon, you knew someone was going to say this.

* And Mal is River Song.

* Because he has two hearts, the gunshot that was supposed to take him out of Limbo didn't kill him.

** And Arthur is a young Jack Harkness.

** Surely Eames is more of a Jack Harkness?