Post by chimeramachinations on Apr 16, 2014 10:44:39 GMT -6
I've noticed that the plots of both MU and MI run off of a ton of things that could never happened (or could have happened differently), and if they didn't it would change huge portions of the plots. I kind of want to discuss them.
Moments in MU that could have never happened.
Moments that could never have happened in between the movies.
Moments that could have never happened in Monster's Inc.
I'm sure there's a ton more.
So, what do you guys think?
(I'm actually not quite sure why I made this topic. I was bored and thinking of AUs.)
Moments in MU that could have never happened.
- Young Mike could have never tried to sneak onto the scare floor.
- Young Mike could have been caught while in the child's room with Frank McCay, either by Frank himself or the humans.
- Mike could have never been Randy's roommate.
- Mike could have never told Randy to take off his glasses. Alternately, someone else could have told him to take off his glasses, or he decided to take off his glasses himself.
- Sulley could have never shown up late to class.
- Sulley could have never stolen Archie in his attempt to rush ROR.
- Sulley could have tried to hide from Fear Tech somewhere else.
- Mike could have never helped Sulley catch Archie.
- Sulley could have joined a different fraternity, or decided not to be in a fraternity at all.
- Mike and Sulley could have never started to fight, which would have left the Dean's scare canister intact.
- Dean Hardscrabble could have given Mike and Sulley a less harsh punishment, or a much, much worse one.
- Mike could have never rushed OK and never made it to the scare games. Same with Sulley.
- Hardscrabble could have never accepted Mike's challenge.
- JOX could have never cheated, leading to OK's elimination.
- OK's library strategy could have failed.
- OK (or any other frat or sorortity) could have been eliminated before the last event.
- ROR could have never pulled a prank on OK.
- OK could have never gone to the party.
- ROR's prank could have messed up.
- ROR could have been punished for their prank.
- ROR could have decided that posting pictures of "Cute-ma Kappa" all over campus wasn't worth it.
- Chet could have never teased Mike about the "big leagues", which would mean that Mike never took OK on the "field trip."
- Johnny could have never taunted Mike about the Mail Room.
- OK could have gotten arrested during the "field trip".
- Any of the scares in the final event could have gone differently.
- Sulley's roar could have never knocked Randy off the wall.
- Johnny could have forgiven Randy for his mistake.
- Sulley could have never chosen to cheat for Mike. Continuing off this, Hardscrabble could have been impressed by OK's results anyway and let them in the scaring program.
- Mike could have never found out that Sulley cheated.
- Hardscrabble could have never found out that Sulley cheated.
- Mike could have never decided to go to the human world.
- Mike could have gone through a different door, which could possibly be easier or harder.
- Hardscrabble could have never shut off the area around the door.
- Don could have failed to distract Hardscrabble so that Sulley could retrieve Mike.
- Sulley could have never gone to retrieve Mike.
- Someone else could have gone to retrieve Mike.
- Someone could have come with Sulley to retrieve Mike.
- Sulley could have never found Mike.
- Mike and/or Sulley could have been killed by humans.
- Mike and Sulley could have failed to power the door.
- Hardscrabble could have never turned off the door.
- Roz and/or the CDA could have decided that keeping an eye on Mike and Sulley wasn't worth it.
- Hardscrabble could have let Mike and Sulley stay.
- Hardscrabble could have decided to not let the OKs into the scaring program.
- Sulley could have never made Mike stop the bus.
- Mike could have never brought up the mail room.
- The Abominable Snowman could have never tampered with the mail, and he wouldn't have been there to save Mike and Sulley in the Himalayas.
- Mike and Sulley could have never been promoted to scarers.
- Mike and Sulley could have been placed on a different scare floor than Randall.
- The OK brothers could have been placed on a scare floor where Mike and Sulley would work.
- Laugh energy could have been discovered at any point in this movie (highly unlikely).
Moments that could never have happened in between the movies.
- Mike could have never started a relationship with Celia.
- Waternoose could have never decided that the scream extractor was a good option.
- Randall and/or Fungus could have refused to help with the scream extractor at any point during it's construction. This could have lead to consequences for them, and possibly even lead to Waternoose approaching someone else.
- Randall could have decided to work at a different scaring company.
- Laugh energy could have been discovered during this time.
- The scream extractor could have been assembled incorrectly.
Moments that could have never happened in Monster's Inc.
- Mike could have remembered to file his paperwork.
- Mike could have decided to do something different for Celia's birthday.
- Randall could have already kidnapped Boo and left the scare floor with her when Sulley went to pick up Mike's paperwork.
- Sulley could have caught Randall in the act while going to pick up Mike's paperwork.
- Boo could have never followed Sulley into the monster world.
- Sulley could have abandoned Boo at any point.
- Sulley could have never taken Boo to Harryhausen's.
- Boo could have never escaped the bag.
- Mike could have never left Celia behind.
- The photographer could have never caught Mike in the picture which would later be on the front page.
- Boo could have never laughed in the monster world.
- Boo's hood could have fallen back at any point.
- Roz could have decided to give Mike the card for Boo's door. Alternately, she would have given it to him, but unfortunately the card was already in Randall or Fungus's possession.
- Randall or Fungus could have never decided to read the newspaper that day.
- Randall and Fungus could have never had the discussion about Boo in the bathroom.
- Randall could have looked over and seen Mike, Sulley, and Boo hiding in the bathroom stall.
- Celia could have never gotten in a fight with Mike in front of Randall about the sushi restaurant.
- Randall could have never found Mike in the picture on the front page.
- Randall could have decided that Mike being there was just a coincidence and decided not to question him about Boo.
- Sulley could have never been stopped by the CDA agents for his autograph.
- Boo could have fallen into the trash compactor.
- Sulley could have put Boo back during the lunch break.
- Randall could have never revealed what he was really up to.
- Sulley could have never arrived on time to save Mike.
- Boo could have never found the secret entrance.
- Randall and/or Fungus could have decided to never turn the scream extractor on.
- Sulley could have knocked Fungus unconscious, leaving him unable to tell Randall where Mike and Sulley went.
- Sulley could have decided to never tell Waternoose what was happening.
- Waternoose could have never decided to banish Mike and Sulley.
- The Abominable Snowman could have never found Mike and Sulley.
- The Abominable Snowman could have never told Mike and Sulley about the village.
- Mike could have decided to accompany Sulley down the mountain.
- Sulley could have died in the trip down the mountain.
- Sulley could have never found a door that was open.
- Sulley could have never arrived on time to save Boo.
- Waternoose or Randall could have been injured by Sulley throwing the scream extractor to the point where they couldn't pursue him.
- Randall could have never been able to jump out of the way of the scream extractor.
- Mike could have never shown up.
- Mike could have never shown up with a snowball to throw.
- Mike could have missed Randall's head.
- Celia could have never caused people to swarm around Randall.
- Mike, Sulley, Randall, and/or Boo could have fallen at any point during the door chase.
- Randall could have decided not to gloat, and would have killed Sulley before Boo could react.
- Boo could have been too scared to attack Randall.
- Mike and Sulley could have decided not to banish Randall.
- Boo could have laughed when they were trying to power up her door.
- Mike could have never had the sock that he threw at the CDA.
- Waternoose could have never fallen for Sulley's trap.
- The CDA could have decided that Sulley could visit Boo whenever he wished.
- Mike and Sulley could have forgotten about how Boo's laughs produced a ton of power.
I'm sure there's a ton more.
So, what do you guys think?
(I'm actually not quite sure why I made this topic. I was bored and thinking of AUs.)