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The police job is what he did pre-retirement; Cosgrove was a cover name he used in a bust and it became a nickname for him.
** Then why not just tell Muntz/Doug/Bird/Annoying Kid/Developers to "Cut it out,"? Elder gods can't resist Cosgrove's abilities!
** Grief over Ellie's death robbed him of his powers. He probably got them back after the events of the movie, though. It explains how he got to keep the zepplin.
{{quote|'''Cosgrove:''' Hey, Freakazoid, wanna go see a colorful bird and a talking dog?
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== Russell was a child from ''[[WALL-E]]'' who time-traveled backwards to the present. ==
Okay, this WMG was mainly built on the fact that Russell was kind of chubby. But still, a WMG's an WMG.
The real reason he doesn't see his dad much is because he went back to the future.
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Everything up to that point had a very believable plot where you never NEEDED to suspend your disbelief. Years of living with a one-track mind would definitely leave that person with some delusional ideas. The whole 2nd and 3rd acts were the product of what Carl wants to tell the audience about what kind of outlook you should have, instead of what really happened.
** ...You made me sad.
*** This troper agrees. He could have died in the ambulance or maybe it is what Elli thinks might happen to him, heck it might even be what the kid wishes assisting the old man would end up as.
*** Damn. That is sad...and possible. But if true, there is at least one light at the end of the tunnel: if Carl did indeed imagine the adventure, and then relate it to the audience/Russell, it would show that he did still let go of the house/his past, he did know what was important. Muntz would exist as a warning of what happens when you get too stuck in the past, what Carl could have become--he's that anyway, but him appearing in Carl's imagination would be justified as either his subconscious or Carl deliberately adding him in to make a point. And he was trying to pass that insight on. Not as awesome as a real adventure, but still heartwarming in its own way.
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* The dogs, being pack animals, call each other not by given names but by social hierarchy, and Dug doesn't have any (he might as well be called Omega). Once Dug defeats the alpha male, he inherits the title.
** Yeah, Omega makes sense. Dug seems like the sort of dog who would occupy the Omega possition.
** This is untrue. There is an Omega listed separately during the ending credits.
* When the three dogs were shooting at Russell in the biplanes, two of them were Beta and Gamma. I always assumed the other one was Delta.
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== The only real bone on that skeleton was the head ==
I.e., Charles' skeleton really ''was'' fabricated. It's quite obvious, in fact, since the supposed "giant snipe" skeleton has ''claws''. Probably Charles Muntz didn't actually know that the bones were not of the same creature, but then you wonder... how did the bones match themselves so well... and what the heck those arms belonged to, anyway?
* Those were the wing bones.
** ...allow me to retort: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Wingbones.png This] is how bird's wing bones look like. They are like an arm, but with nothing resembling fingers. The arms on that thing clearly ''had'' fingers. I couldn't find any pictures of the movie, sadly...
** ...Some birds do have claws: [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hoatzin Hoatzins] for instance. I know that real snipes don't have claws, but Kevin wasn't very snipe-like.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wd0K_dirE4 1:08 and 1:13-14].
* [http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/1519/11653707.JPG Meet Titanis, a terror bird with "wing bones" that could have possibly functioned like claws]. Following the evolution WMG above, it fits in perfectly.
** We know Titanis turned out to not have wing claws since 2006. [[This Is Sparta|STOP. FAILING.]] [[Punctuated!
== The movie takes place in the [[New World of Darkness]], and it's a story about [[Genius: The Transgression|Geniuses]]. ==
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== Everything passed the storm was [[All Just a Dream]] ==
The house instead crashed into the buildings that the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] wanted to complete in the first place, than accidentally killed said Executive ''a la'' Wicked Witch Of East. However, it ended with Russel severely injured, and Carl in a coma, thus dreaming up the rest of it...
{{spoiler|... however, once he woke up from it, he discovered that the pages that filled the 'stuff I'm going to', Russel's daddy issues, and Mutz (who just happened to retrieved Kevin and come back around the same time Carl woke up from his coma) being insane, and his doggy army were all real, and the dream just happens to be a vision sent by the spirit of his dead wife. Expect, Kevin's a shape shifter who can disguise herself, mainly as a bird or human, as her true form is [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|not to be seen by a human eye]].}}
That black out at the end of the storm scene had me thinking.
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== The skeleton was cobbled together from the skeletal or even fossilized remains of a fledgeling Kevinoid and its parent, but Muntz' insanity went back all the way to then to where he couldn't even tell. ==
The scientific community laughed him off because the "monster of Paradise Falls" was (metaphorically) just another [[Science Marches On|Brontosaurus]]. He declared that it was real, and he could prove it by finding a live specimen. However, if he'd been in his right mind, it would have been possible for him to accept Kevin's kind as being a real example of a Lost World species, instead of killing them and letting his dogs eat them as soon as he realized that an individual specimen wasn't the same "species" as the monster, and thus 1. useless in proving the existence of the monster, and 2. a worthless freak of nature [[Critical Research Failure|that we already have the bones of]] (''aepyornis maximus''), just a colorful emu that nobody will care about.
== The skeleton in Muntz's airship is that of Kevin's mate. ==
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== The film takes place in the ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' universe. ==
In ''[[Modern Warfare]]'', favela thugs, mercenaries and terrorists are able to access heavy-duty military hardware with great ease, which explains how Carl was able to acquire a bajillion balloons despite a recent lawsuit.
* He sold balloons for a living. He probably just still had them leftover from then.
== "Phyllis" was a [[Old Retainer|live-in]] [[Parental Substitute|child-care technician]]. ==
Carl most likely [[Parental Abandonment|assumed wrong]], under the premise of the guess.
* When I first saw the movie, I thought she was the dad's secretary.
* I just assumed she was the nanny, and Carl was upset that she spent more time with Russell than either of his parents did.
** I thought it was a combination of the two above theories: Phyllis is Russell's step-mom, and tries way too hard to make him like her. Thus, she isn't actually Russell's mom.
* I thought that Russell's parents divorced and Phyllis was his father's new wife. The real mom was the lady in badge ceremony scene.
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== Muntz is only ten years older than Carl ==
Muntz was in his early twenties when Carl and Elle were about, let's say- ten. This is why, when Carl and Mutz meet, they can both be old- but not ''too'' old. If Carl is maybe 70 (I don't remember if they actually ''say'' his age, so I'm sorry if that's wrong. XD) Than Muntz would only be 80.
* If that were true, it'd have been awfully hard for him to go on excursions with Teddy Roosevelt, who died in 1919, a full decade before Muntz would have been born to only be 80 in 2009. And something vaguely wheelchair-ish is telling me he wasn't talking about FDR.
== The [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] purposely planned the events that led to Carl being labeled a menace ==
The [[Jerkass]] wanted Carl out so badly, so he ordered the construction workers to ''accidentally'' hit something and then told them that if should they hit anything, they should be ''aggressively'' nice, knowing that it would make Carl lose his temper and lash out. The CCE probably could have found other ways to have him evicted, but he decided to do this simply to get the message across that you don't mess with him.
* He likely took it personally when Carl got his house to float away. To him its like a big "up yours".
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