

It’s possible that Charles Muntz, the antagonist of Up, learned of this startling rumor, giving him the idea to begin inventing devices that would harness the thoughts of animals, namely his dogs, through translator collars. What happened to him? What did he do with his newfound knowledge that animals were capable of transcending their instincts and performing duties better than humans? Meanwhile, the villain of Ratatouille, Chef Skinner, disappears. He crafts a relationship with a small group of humans and finds success. Remy wants to cook, something only humans explicitly do. In Ratatouille, we see animals experimenting with their growing personification in small, controlled experiments. Notice I left out A Bug’s Life, but I’ll explain why later. The stage for all-out war in regards to animals is set by Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, and Up, in that order. The events of the following movies set up a power struggle between humans, animals, and machines.

There are two progressions: the progression of the animals and the progression of artificial intelligence. Let’s just say, for now, the witch is someone we know from a different movie in the timeline.Ĭenturies later, the animals from Brave that have been experimented on by the witch have interbred, creating a large-scale population of animals slowly gaining personification and intelligence on their own. Don’t get ahead of me, but we’ll come back to Brave.

We also learn that this witch inexplicably disappears every time she passes through doors, leading us to believe that she may not even exist. Not only do we see animals behaving like humans, but we also see brooms (inanimate objects) behaving like people in the witch’s shop. We find out that this magic comes from an odd witch seemingly connected to the mysterious will-of-the-wisps. In Brave, Merida discovers that there is “magic” that can solve her problems but inadvertently turns her mother into a bear. Obviously, this movie about a Scottish kingdom during the Dark Ages is the earliest time period covered by the Pixar films, but it’s also the only Pixar movie that actually explains why animals in the Pixar universe behave like humans sometimes. If you hate fun and/or imagination, you probably won’t like this theory.īrave is the first and last movie in the timeline. The point of this theory is to have fun and exercise your imagination while simultaneously finding interesting connections between these fantastic movies.

This theory covers every Pixar production since Toy Story.
