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I think you should be focusing more on the shaman in turning red. He clearly understands magic as he forgoes the ritual banishing the panda spirits into pendants. You'll also hear he has 50 years experience in magic! HELLO! Turning red is in 2002. 50 years ago is when the monsters were visiting the human world. Abby's mother, being Boo probably asked the shaman for magic tips from 50 years ago and figured more out on her own.

The dad in the beginning of the movie when he was cooking looked like he was in the “zone” from soul. When he realizes he’s been in the “zone” he snaps out of it and goes back to cooking normally.

What if Pixar is making movies to go against the theory only to have you guys find and make connections frustrating them even more.

Not to forget, when Merida turns her mother back into a human, the lullaby her mom sang (A mhaighdean bhan uasal) is playing in the background. I think that if Merida was thinking about it, then it's similar to speaking from her hearts fire, even without saying it.

I also took note of the tamagotchi which held Ming’s panda spirit at the end of the movie. It was the first representation of a machine having a spirit, or soul. This could possibly explain the relation between the tamagotchi and the panda vs the cars and their owners. Another HUGE clue.

So the funny thing about this is that Abby acts a lot like Boo too, in some ways. She's sort of cutely physically aggressive, prone to roaring and play-biting. Kind of like that's how mom played with her when she was younger. That said, I don't necessarily agree that the Red Panda magic comes from Boo. My interpretation would be more along the lines that it's magic that came from the spirit (since we actually see that spirit interacting with Mei in the movie), but that Boo learned about, and used mortal magic to try to emulate. Which is why the 'bear spell' works so differently. It's not the same magic, not from the same source.

Abby is a good scarer, she has so much chaotic energy packed into a human being

The second death fits with Sun Yee too! Since she's still remembered by her family, via them meeting her in the ritual, that's how shes able to still guide them through the mirror!

Interesting theory. One nitpick from someone with a zoology major brother though: red pandas aren't bears. They're in their own family, Ailuridae, rather than being part of the bear family, Ursidae. Their super family, Musteloidea, the weasel super family, is more closely related to seals and sea lions than to bears.

The pink/purple/yellow flowers on Boo's door and Abby's clothes REALLY got me! Holy cow, I mean it just CAN"T be a coincidence!! Love that you caught that detail (:

I'm pretty sure we're all aware this theory is extremely unlikely to be canon but we all listen to it and observe while being mesmerized by it

the only thing missing is the movie where Boo learns how to travel through time and magic, or both

I was hoping for the connection to the red panda ritual to Moon Wind’s ritual in Soul. The angry panda spirits remind me of the lost soul designs.

Turning Red helps prove the idea that it is indeed Emotions that power pretty much everything. Because what is it that triggers Mei's transformation? Strong Emoitions! Also when you said that there isn't any God-Like entities in the Pixar Universe, I think you are forgetting the Jerrys from Soul. The ones who manage souls... or spirits. Why would they help out humans by binding Red Panda spirits to them? No clue. But maybe you could figure out some ideas?

I'm still not totally convinced that Boo is the witch from Brave, though it is fun to speculate; but I LOVE the idea of Boo as Abby's mom.

Can you do another full Pixar theory video? It’s so confusing watching in pieces

Also because of the super's being legal in America and the presence of superhumans being normalised, it also explains why Toronto seems very chill and accepting over a random panda girl living there especially after one destroying government property.

The only fly in the ointment is that Abby says her mom cuts hair at the salon. Unless she’s a hairdresser by day and temporal physicist by night…

1995: What if toys had feelings 2006: What if cars had feelings 2008: What if robots had feelings 2012: What if Scotland had feelings 2015: What if feelings had feelings 2017: What if dead Mexicans had feelings 2020: What if souls had feelings 2021: What if Italian fish people had feelings 2022: What if feelings are red pandas

Boo being a BOO-mer (haha) is, for some reason, hilarious 😂

I’m surprised there wasn’t any mention about how similar this movie is to Soul. The singing, the spiritual dimension, the ritual, 22 landing in Asia, etc. Also, does Sun Yee’s shrine count as an Ofrenda? One that works on the lunar eclipse instead of just Dia de los muertos?

Boo as Abby's mom feels like a stretch to me, but it's still totally reasonable that she'd hear about Pandapocalypse, travel to the family-owned panda shrine, (even if she didn't live in Toronto) and ask a million questions

I was waiting for this! As soon as I finished the movie I thought “I’m gonna have fun seeing people going mad trying to fit this in!”

I can just imagine Pixar making a new movie thinking "man these guys are never gonna fit this into their little theory"

"you can see mordu's if you look really closly because it is literally everywhere" LOL had me laughing

You’re not gonna mention how the ritual is very very similar to the ritual to retrieve lost souls in the movie Soul? Both are used to separate an inconvenient and powerful emotional state from an otherwise normal and logical thinking person in a mystical realm and then bring them back to their body’s, now with more agency and emotional freedom

I’m surprised the Pixar theory is still a thing, I would’ve thought by now something would’ve happened that deconfirmed it but I guess not surprisingly

7:44 Heh, I remember watching the part where Mei almost rips the picture of Sun Yee, I yelled out "MEND THE TAPESTRY" because of how similar it was about to get with Brave

I would love to see boo figure out time travel, even if it’s a short or an entire movie, just seeing her master time travel and then it ending with her seeing sully

I love this theory and I would totally go to a 4 town concert. I also think you should make an updated "completed Pixar theory" video just to put all the pieces together.

i really think there should be a new video on the pixar theory from start to finish. it's been so long and there have been so many new additions and i think it would be really helpful. I've been saying this for years but never commented or anything. i think it would be helpful for those new to the fandom (as they would have to piece it together through other videos) and fun and nostalgic for those of us who have been here since the beginning.

Let me guess the next video. “Who is Mei’s monster?”

Mei would make a great avenger she has the strength of a giant red panda and can infinitely jump

Also Abby's reaction to the red panda is very "Boo"

I like how each movie pieces the theory together more and more.

I would love to see and updated version of the Pixar Theory!!

Anybody else notice that Mordu's spirit contained a glowing spirit like the ones in Soul?

I love how y’all r able to make movies just slip right into the theory

I've been waiting for this, because I just could not wrap my head around how this movie fits in the Pixar Theory. but I do have 1 question? isn't Abby of Korean descent? Or is she simply fluent in it? (she speaks Korean twice in the film). Granted if she was that doesnt automatically deconfirm the idea of Boo being her mother, it could be from the fathers side.

For the amount of work and research that goes into these videos, I'm a bit surprised they missed fairly common (or so I thought) animal trivia that red panda's aren't bears.. and didn't double check how Sun Yee's name is pronounced... lol

Can you make an updated full Pixar Theory video?

Cool workaround but i dont think Boo needs to be directly related to anyone in Turning Red for the theory to still work. As noted, it would definitely been an international story; maybe Boo travels to Toronto and over time learns from Ming and Mei more about the magic that allows humans to turn into animals (and time travel?) She would probably be researching and traveling all over the world at this age, desperately looking for a way back to Sully

Theory: Meimei is 22 from Soul. It makes way too much sense. Their personalities are way too close. After 22 fell down to earth with Joe, she was reincarnated into Meimei. Let me explain: You could make the argument that 22 is more sassy, but 22 became more open minded and optimistic by the end of Soul, but still retained some of the sass, and at the very beginning of Turning Red, she is the complete embodiment of that word. Plus, at the end of Soul, when she's falling to earth with Joe, she falls towards Asia, and guess who else is Asian? MEIMEI, thats who! You could also make the argument that she lives in Canada, but I counter that with the possibility that her parents and family moved to Canada before she was born. Boom. 22 is Meimei. I think that's a solid theory.

Jeez you guys really are talented at weaving these new stories into the pt

Love the video and the fact you're still managing to fit new films into the pixar theory. On a side note, I love the idea of the red panda transformation being great for keeping the family (and village or community) safe at first, but becoming an inconvenience or something that causes harm in a modern setting. It's a perfect metaphor for stress and depression, since stress comes from our adrenaline fight-or-flight (or-flock-or-freeze) reaction and the fact that in the modern world we often can't do those things, meaning conflict between our bodies saying one thing and our minds saying another. If that continues, it leads to mental health issues like depression. Like mr incredible wanting to save people but having to work an office job, so in order to stay "sane", he helps his customers more than he should. He listens to his body and "fights" the system, in a way. Meilin's family have a reaction to emotions that they suppress, because trying to control it in a modern world causes them stress, but the film does a great job of showing that repressing that doesn't make the problem go away and when that repressed emotion breaks free, it's even more harmful, hence pandapocalypse. But learning to embrace your emotions and release them in a good way leads to her being much more mentally healthy, and I love that she reaches that point through her interaction with her friends. It's worth comparing turning red to encanto, from a storytelling perspective, where both families are given a gift that they pass down, to protect or serve their community and while encanto is about not letting that service suppress who you are as an individual, turning red is about not suppressing the gift or service in order to be yourself. They both push the idea of striking a healthy balance, which is ideal. =]

I find it the hilarious that of all the possible mistakes/miscommunications these guys could’ve possibly made, the only one that I noticed was the mixing up that a red panda is not a bear.

I think it’s worth mentioning that when the witch gave the potion to Mor’du she told him he could either share it or keep it to himself. It’s possible the Sun Yee was given a similar choice but chose to share it with her daughters. Perhaps the reason Mor’du stayed as a bear is because he kept it all to himself while Sun Yee and her descendants can change back and forth due to Sun Yee sharing it.

What I think happens is when you harness a powerful magic like this. What you originally seek it for sort of binds you and your lineage to a “spirit animal” of sorts. Like for protection it’s a red panda, for power it’s a bear. What if other animals represent other desires. What animal is the desire for wealth? For giving? For love? Is “strength” different to “power”

Finally, another Pixar Theory video!

You lucked out with the Toronto/scare time zone thing. And I love it!

Red pandas are not bears! They’re genetically closer to raccoons.

Never expected boo to become a manipulating time traveling witch who turns people in to bears with a good motive

I just find it so funny this is the first Pixar movie I can think of with an actual date! The whole movie takes place between April and May of 2002! No other Pixar movie is anywhere near that specific.

What if the way boo learned to do magic was that she found a door that went to the planet that onward takes place on

So what you're telling me is, Abby is Edna Mode's granddaughter?!?!?!?!

How sore do your arms or legs get having to move the chair left and right every few sentences?

I love the thought of Abby, my favorite character in Turning Red, as the daughter of Boo, the most important figure in the Pixar Theory.

I could see Pixar making a movie in the future following the story of boo, I would love it if they did.

Also, if Boo is Abby's mother. That means her daughter was friends with Meilin BEFORE pandapocalypse occurred. Perhaps that's purely a coincidence where Boo first heard about the magic. If she was in her 40s around this time, assuming she spent years trying to find him again, she might have given up on trying to find Sully and began to live a normal life. Until, she hears about her daughter's friend who can transform into a panda. As an adult now, she probably tried to make sense of what Sully was. Hearing this story might've made her think this is what sully was or what he originated from. Boo might've been inspired from this point on to continue searching for him and that's when she began to learn about magic and time travel. She then spends her time trying to recreate this magic herself and eventually travels back in time to 'Brave' and "blesses" Mordue with similar magic. It's not the same obviously because she was trying to replicate a gift from a God with magic. Boo might've realized that other cultures may hold the secret to magic and traveled to learn about it. Which might explain why she ended up in scotland.

17:12 it was weird to skip ahead in the video by accident and land on this piece of Ben out of context.

I want to know who Mai monster would be from monsters Inc I like to imagine it's a scary giant red panda maybe with a yo-kai whatever Chinese demon mask

Wow, Boo is really thorough about making time loops to keep Sulley (and Mike) alive.

Watching this just before going to bed… now the song is going to be stuck in my head and therefore in dreamworld 🎶🎶

Plausible. I love it! I could totally see the witch complaining about 4town music!

I think Turing Red is in the same time line when Mr. Incredible and Elastic Girl ware in there prime because there’s a lot classic thing like those techno pets and the boy band is kinda like The Backstreet Boys

I somewhat agree with the SCB's Pixar Theory, and I like the idea that Boo married a Korean since Abby is a Canadian-Korean, and yeah, I do think Boo might be, might be the Witch as well from Brave.

The Theorizer's 'Baby Smitty' video blows the Pixar Theory out of the water though. Also, BNL, the ball, Pizza Planet truck, etc seemed to be absent in Turning Red.

I like how every time you cut you move your chair

Personally, I feel this Pixar theory is 99% spot on, I just feel theres a bigger reason for this timeline other than Boo simply wanting to stop a second death. I think we're missing a bigger piece of the puzzle..yet to be discovered. What if Sully is just the cherry on top, the side mission she accomplished along her REAL reason... or I could be wrong who knows.

I’m predicting a ‘which monster do they have ?’ video for each of the kids in turning red at some point

14:15 "Where'd he come from even?... or where he went?" *Sully IS Cotton-eyed Joe CONFIRMED*

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I have a video idea for you, I know it sounds crazy, but I think you should try and fit Encanto into the Pixar Theory, it just fits well! You already made a video about how it connects to Luca, and it was shown in that video that it connects to WALL-E. And you talked about how the red panda was a "GIFT". It could show that what happened in the madrigal family happens to other families yet in different forms, or that their part of the same family. I'm not super sure about this theory because I'm not the best movie theorist but I do think you guys should look into it.

Omg abby being boo's kid makes so much sense the hair the face features it all fits plus shes part Korean (idk if boo was every confermed to be anything other then just 'asian' but he features do fit korean the best )

I LOVE the integration of Boo/the witch from Brave into Turning Red!

It’s going to be interesting on how Lightyear will fit in the Theory. Since it’s a movie within the Toy Story timeline.

"The family patriarch" I think you mean the "family matriarch" patriarch is male head of the family, the email head is matriarch.

Ive been waiting for thissssss

Pixar executive: "This wasn't at all planned but it makes so much sense. Let's announce it cannon and make it look like we planned it all along."

I agree all the way, but I still feel like Turning Red, in a specific but odd way, made a path to many Pixar possibilities, or in short, a way to seek Pixar Multiverse, where every movie exist in different timelines in their own outcomes, so far there at least 3, the original, everything up towards toy story 4, and the new timeline set with turning red, so far with my speculation

I have to admit that I really enjoyed the movie. It was weird and really out there, and that's what I liked about it. I really enjoy when animated projects that don't shy away from family problems, teenage drama or social issues. The characters, animation and voice acting were all done very well. They did a good job of showing how scary changing and growing up can be, but it happens for a reason. But like any other Disney movie, the problem is mostly resolved to quickly. Forgiving and moving on is important, but its not easy (like they make it seem in their movies). Ming did the exact same thing to Mei that her mother did to her - and she didn't see that? If nothing is ever going to be good enough, you shouldn't push a child to be perfect. Healing can happen...but it takes time. (Ming shouldn't need to apologize. She may have given her mother that scar, but it was Wu's controlling and overbearing nature that caused such an act.) People may call the portrayal of Chinese culture in this movie racist or stereotypical; but it isn't if its all fact. Most families of Asian cultures are very controlling and pass that toxic quirk to their children. Parents shouldn't push their desires onto their children, because than the children never get to live their own lives. If your kids rebel, its most likely because you're refusing to listen to them. If there's a sequel, I seriously hope that Disney doesn't tone down the problems and issues of growing up.

This is absolutely the wildest but best Pixar theory video. Boo is Canadian?!?! AND was there for panda pocypse?!

"Giant Godzilla Panda" Not something you were expecting to hear today, huh?

I just finished watching the movie and I noticed that Abby sort of reminded me of Boo, and I knew J and Ben wouldn’t leave that unmentioned

The question I want answered is WHY WAS MEI'S MOM SO BIG WHEN THE REST OF THE FAMILY WAS AVEREAGE?!

Brilliant! Time to binge watch your other Pixar Theory videos!

Not sure if anyone else noticed this, but Abby also really enjoyed hugging Mei Lee in panda form, like Boo hugged sully... it just seemed like she liked hugging the panda more than the other friends, like it meant something deeper to her, and Mei Lee's panda was a similar size to Sully, and the fur just made me think of Sully's fur (like it would feel the same texture-wise). Is this another similarity between mother and daughter? Or did Boo teach her daughter to love monsters as she loved them? Or did she maybe have a Sully doll or something that she gave to her daughter (I feel like this is something Boo would do)? Or did Sully also visit Abby while trying to visit Boo? Just seems like another thread to follow???

I personally hope that the old witch is not boo, this is because I find time loops in movies to be annoying as it is a paradox.

I like that with her powers se could easily be a marvel or DC character xD

Love these Pixar theory videos!

This is soo great, I was always having a this question making me mad that how soo many centuaries ago boo set the events in motion? but this settling atleast my thirst of information on boo's motivation

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Been waiting for this since turning red love it.

Been forever since I’ve seen one of your videos and you still give the best content

I'm in the camp that thinks the red panda magic wasn't from Boo --- it really was from a spirit. Boo just saw that this magic was a way to create large, fuzzy, Sully-like creatures. So, she heard of it, investigated, and tried it for herself (bear spells in Brave), but didn't quite get it right and it ended up being more corrupt and darker.

Monsters inc seems more like it would take place on the onward planet, after all magic is gone. They couldn’t go into their own past to get energy, they crash landed there. But they could go into their old planet’s past, if we’re talking time travel anyway

Remember, Soul gave the Pixar-verse an afterlife. That universe does have at least one god, if not more.

I have been waiting for this

You should do another updated Pixar theory video!!