Grand Unifying Guesses/The Actor Rule: Difference between revisions

For example:

* Sam Tyler is the Master. So is the Emperor Claudius.

* Hiro must be some sort of future Time Agent, as he's worked undercover as a urologist in Sacred Heart Hospital and a bathroom attendant in the Amazonian mansion of a certain Triad ping-pong master.

** Given that [[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Sulu]] is his father, this isn't too surprising...

** And, as we can see in the movie ''Primal Fear'', it even '''began''' three years '''before''' the events of Fight Club!

* Prior to the movie ''First Contact'', [[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Captain Picard]] somehow wound up back in Earth's past where he became a sea captain under the alias of [[Moby Dick|Captain Ahab]]. Starfleet didn't track him down until years after he ended up there and beamed him out in the nick of time before he was eaten by The Whale. They then had to bring him back to the 24th century, shave off the hair (or what little) of it he'd grown, regrow his leg via some sort of surgery and somehow managed to restore his sanity. This would explain how he was able to recite the lines of Moby Dick in the aforementioned movie. At some other point in his life Captain Picard travelled back in time to become [[X Men|Professor Xavier]].

*** Well, he'd have to be, to wind up plotting Emperor Tiberius's overthrow (which he failed miserably at, no less).

* Bret Hart is an immortal, as [[Lonesome Dove The Series|he was apparently running around in the old west]], and yet was a wrestler in the modern day. His career ended, not due to Post-Concussion Syndrome from a sloppy kick by Bill Goldberg, but in order to maintain the [[Masquerade]].

* Charlie from [[Numb3rs]] will invent time travel and strand himself in the future, where he will rename himself [[Firefly|Mr. Universe]].

** Actually, Jack began life as [[Edward Scissorhands|Edward]]. Having graduated to high school (and gaining some hands along the way), he joined a [[21 Jump Street|teenage police force]]. Discovering his natural talent for leadership, he went on to become a [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain]], but then decided that the piratey life wasn't for him, and so switched to business - [[Charlie and The Chocolate Factory|the chocolate business]].

*** And, of course, Jack's predecessor at the chocolate factory was [[Superman (Film)|Lex Luthor]]. All the candies and devices with weird, magical effects are actually prototypes for weapons to be used against Superman.

* During her stay on Earth, [[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Guinan]] was at one point a nun in an abbey under the name of [[Sister Act|Sister Mary Clarence]]. She also somehow managed to become a judge and ended up trying [[Rocky and Bullwinkle]].

** And then wound up hosting a morning talk show with several [[The View|other women]]...

* [[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Uhura]] is [[Heroes (TV)|Micah's]] grandmother.

** Don't you just ''love'' time travel?

* [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain Jack and Elizabeth Swann]] found the Fountain of Youth. Unfortunately, Elizabeth accidentally drank a little too much of its water and regressed to babyhood, so Jack arranged for her to be adopted by one [[Pride and Prejudice|Mr. Bennet]].

* Christian Bale is actually Batman. In a dystopian future, he is forced to lead a human rebellion against Skynet after they kill Robin. He must let the world think that Bruce Wayne and Batman are both dead. This eventually [[American Psycho|drives him completely around the bend]]. [[Equilibrium|This is in fact the second rebellion he has led in a dystopian future]].

** She didn't die. She was recruited by Davy Jones.

* [[Frasier]] eventually travelled to the future and became a starship captain. Unfortunately, he repeatedly crashed it into the [[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Enterprise-D]].

* That would make large chunks of Schindler's List into [[Rule of Cool|a fight between Qui-Gon Jinn and Voldemort. Admit it, you thought that sounded AWESOME before your conscience kicked in...And if they made the lightsaber and Voldemort's spells show up in color (green) while still keeping the rest black-and-white, not even Jiminy Cricket would be able to keep from thinking it was epic.]] (i'm so going to hell...)

* After drowning in a sea of blood, Pedro is reincarnated as Ganondorf and loses his compassion in the form of Donkey Kong. Incredibly NO!

* Cassie (''A Chorus Line'') eventually leaves theatre, dyes her hair blonde, and teaches drama at [[High School Musical|Albuquerque's East High]].

* After faffing about being an odd-job man for long enough, [[Mary Poppins|Bert]] decided to settle down with someone, had two kids and invented a [[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang|flying car]]. After all that he trained for a medical degree and ended up becoming a physician in an [[Diagnosis Murder (TV)|American Hospital]].

* [[The Sound of Music|Maria Von Trapp]] is [[Mary Poppins]]. She was also the [[The Princess Diaries|Queen of Genovia]] and [[Shrek|Far Far Away]] and eventually ended up looking after a [[Eloise At The Plaza|hyperactive six year old.]]

* Every character played by [[Robin Williams]] is actually [[Aladdin (Disney)|Genie]].

* Wait, so Jim Lovell is Forrest Gump and Charlie Wilson?

* But this would mean that Dr. Ellie Arroway got attacked in a park and killed a whole bunch of people...

* [[Alice in Wonderland (Film)|The Mad Hatter]] is [[Charlie and The Chocolate Factory|Willy Wonka]]. He may also be [[Edward Scissorhands]] and [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain Jack Sparrow]].

* Dylan Moran is an interesting case. He started out as a thief called Rufus. Then, presumably with the money he has stolen, he started a little [[Black Books|book shop]], which became run down and unpopular due to its owner's rampant alcoholism. Later, when the book shop finally went bankrupt, Rufus!Bernard changed his name and cleaned up his act, only to die in a fatal [[Shaun of the Dead|zombie-related accident]].

* [[Transformers|Spike Witwicky]] is an amnesiac [[Indiana Jones|Henry Jones III]]. His mother, Marion, is an epic ho who has two other sons, each by different fathers: [[Tron|Sam Flynn]], conceived by [[Starman (Film)|an alien whom she met after the disappearance of Kevin Flynn]], and Eragon, fathered by [[Discworld|the Patrician]] during a period of time that he spent in Alagaesia. Sam Flynn was born in Alagaesia and raised by his stepfather, Morzan, under the name Murtagh, before returning to Earth to try and find his real father. As for the Patrician, he remained in Alagaesia until he [[Dungeons and Dragons|tried to destroy the world using dragons]], at which point he was eaten by a dragon. The intense magical powers and digestive juices turned him into [[The Time Machine|the Uber-Morlock]] and threw him millions of years into the future.

* But doesn't that make spineless Government lap dog [[Torchwood (TV)|Frobisher]] the same man as [[Magnificent Bastard]] [[The Thick of It|Malcolm]] [[In the Loop|Tucker]]?

** You should have seen Professor [[Mac Leish]] in ''[[Peep Show]]''. That [[Magnificent Bastard|intimidating-yet-charismatic]] lecturer was a proto-Tucker if ever there was one.

== Every actor has also voiced the same character ==

* ...which has truly frightening implications for [[Mel Blanc]] and [[Megumi Hayashibara]].

** She can also be either [[Cowboy Bebop|Faye Valentine]] and [[Bleach|Yoruichi Shihouin]] or [[Death Note (Manga)|Misa Amane]].

* This means [[Winnie the Pooh|Eeyore]] is secretly ''[[Transformers|Optimus Prime]]''.

** And Duo has a hell of a lot of religious overtones...

** And now that includes '''[[Gundam 00|Ali Al Saachez]]'''. [[Memetic Mutation|Mighty is he]], indeed.

** In an [[Alternate Universe]], he is [[Fate Stay Night|Shiro]], [[Code Geass|Clovis]], and [[Naruto|Zaku]].

*** Don't forget he's [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Taniguchi]]/[[Lucky Star|Minoru Shiraishi]] and [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Donatello]].

** Despite the frequency of Hinagiku berating her older sister Yukiji, it's surprising to note that they barely interact with each other as their alternate selves [[To Heart 2|Tamaki and Yuma]] respectively.

* After a storied romantic past, in which she emerged as the [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] after [[Shuffle|the arrival of two more rivals in the form of]] [[Ojou|princesses]], [[Shuffle|Asa Shigure]] [[Fate Stay Night|settled down in a magical town with the adopted son of his friend]] as his [[Harem Nanny]] and taught at the local private school he went to. Upon becoming dissatisfied at how he handled his [[Harem]], she left for another town, and decided to vent her anger and frustration by [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni|spreading a disease causing the townsfolk to become more and more]] [[Ax Crazy]] [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni|and eventually leading to them murdering each other in cold blood]].

* After graduating at Hakuou Academy at the age of thirteen, the [[Student Council President]] Maria moved to another high school to repeat her education, because she literally skipped her way to graduation. However, because of a certain [[Jerkass]], she failed her university entrance examinations, [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|despite having a ten year old prodigy for a friend]]. She could no longer come to terms with the educational system, so she elected to work in one of [[Shakugan no Shana|Shana's]] [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|mansions as a maid]].

* Chiyo's Dad, after abandoning both his [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|ten-year old genius daughter]] and his [[Magnificent Bastard]] [[Chessmaster]] [[Code Geass|of a son]], decided to take up street fighting, until he could fire [[Street Fighter|rainbow colored beams from his hands while wearing a red captain's uniform]]. He eventually gained enough power, [[Code Geass|stole his brother's Code]], and [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence|Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence]] by becoming the [[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Voice in the Heavens]].