It was noted that, when Fire Town was established, all water pipes were shut down. Therefore, the shop doesn't need up-to-code pipes. In fact, the City should be responsible for enforcing the removal of the pipes and sealing the leak.

i'm not even sure if this is a result of bad writing or this is what writters actually had in mind, because this theory works so well it's scary

Honestly, I agree. Wade kinda only says the right things at the right time. Crashing her celebration was selfish

If they made him a twist villain this would probably be the first good Disney twist villain in years

Honestly, the idea that wade could be secretly a bad person makes this movie more interesting, like the idea that the movie was suppose to be a romance movie turns into a toxic relationship and subverting the views expectation of what they were expecting is more interesting then the movie we got.

I always thought it was really pushy and bizarre for him to show up unannounced to her ceremony, proclaim his love for her in front of everyone, and then pressure her to admit she loves him back. He's never met anyone in her family or community besides her mom and has no idea what the ramifications for her could be. He's clearly aware of societal prejudice yet never considers that her family could not only refuse to give her the shop, but outright disown her. Regardless of whether she truly wanted to own the shop, it struck me as insanely manipulative of him to ruin it for her

one thing i hate about water guy is how he tells her to quits his job, even though she always wanted her job

alright so how about we discuss an important part. Wade litterally got thrown into a random girl's family basement and immediately started writing a health inspector ticket for the plumbing, and runs off despite ember trying to explain. but when wade puts his ticket through the pipe, and ember breaks down and cries, he says "wELl WhY dIDnT yOu sAY sO?" like bro what?? she did try and explain??

missed opportunity to make wade the nice looking water guy the vilain, and maybe one of his siblings picks up on that and actually helps amber and so she stops seeing wade and wade shows his true colors

i always felt kinda weird about the way wade acted and this actually helped me connect the dots. he is straight up manipulative and i wish the writers went with that, and had him be a twist villain or something. it wouldnt align totally with "disney values" or the whole message theyre trying (and failing) to send with this film but it would make more sense and feel better.

Gaslighting is also a pun~ Ya know because of the fire/cooking thing? o3o

wow that detail of his face looking disappointed then quickly putting on a facade after the phone call bit was very nicely caught!

Personally I think this is just a case of the writers not knowing how to portray what they were trying to portray properly so it came across as manipulative whenever they meant for him to be genuine Not that I don't like a good dark theory

He is going to become the second matpat-

I don’t see him as this innocent guy anymore but a threat, holy crap he doesn’t even look the same anymore, this is how people fall for bad people and we didn’t even resize were supporting it

There’s always been something kinda off about Wade. How he just randomly shows up at the perfect times, and he’s just really odd in general to me.

Elemental: a sweet movie about peace between all races (at the end I think?) Theroists: NAH ITS TIME WE GET TO THEORISING NOW MANIPULATION IS IN THE MOVIE Disney and Pixar: here we go again

I formulated this theory when I watched it for the first time I was like “you Idiot he just told your entire family about how you were touching eachother and now your gonna be forced to live with him or your life is ruined”

When i saw the title i was like yeah yeah everything has a stupid secret meaning nowadays. But this one works so well i mean terrifyingly well. It actually might be intended.

This just shows how much this movie needed better writing

Dude, this theory is just *chefs kiss.* I never knew Wade from Elemental, the guy who spent the whole movie crying was the manipulative seagma male icon we all needed. What a legend.

I couldn’t help but to feel that way when he pretty much put her on blast during what was supposed to be a family ceremony for inheriting the store

That's crazy af. Instead of letting everything happen on its own and just helping out of the kindness of his heart, he basically manipulated every situation. Obv that's not true in the movie, but in real life this would definitely be suspicious behavior 😭

The theorie is good, but I still think there are some things not right. (Disclaimer: this is not meant hateful, just some counterarguments... it got too long, I'm sorry...) 1. Wade writing the ticket. It could be a master plan... or his job? He also couldn't have just left it that way, because he needs that job and if it came out, he was there, and he didn't tell anyone about the violations, he'd have been in a lot of trouble. 2. Wade doesn't let Ember plead her case. Maybe he sabotaged, or, he saw the way she wanted to handle it and thought, maybe it would help if it were sincerer, if some very important and personal details were shared. Was it his place to share these details? No, but it probably worked for him most of the time, so he tried to help the way he is used to doing stuff like this. He also didn't know that Ember has an anger management issue. A point that can work for your theory, as just coincidentally, he was lucky she had it, or he didn't think, that she would react that way and still only had in mind to help. 3. The two passes and the way he happened to have left them at his workplace, where Ember happened to be. Chances are, they are a gift from Gale, so he could go too. They are a workplace gift and the second card would be for anyone he would like to take along or if he would like to see another game. He left them there, because he forgot them there and the game was that day, and she happened to be there. The reason he mentions it, is because he wants her to know, he's not stalking her... perhaps. 4. His impressing skills. That's just who he is. That's why he acted so weird at point two. He is sentimental and is deeply interested in people, because he knows that sometimes, it's hard to deal with emotions. I mean, he bursts at any given moment, he probably had his dark times because of it too. 5. He is the man of the plan. His job is literally this. He was the one inspecting the pipes and the leak the first time around, so who else is supposed to make a plan. Ember? Perhaps Gale, but the whole point was, that they are supposed to fix the issue, not her. 6. First one to spot the hole? He was the one paying the most attention at the moment they flew over it. 7. The one with "punched in the face by beauty" could hint at him not wanting it to be fixed, or he is actually in awe of it, the only evidence against it, I could bring, is, that it only works for people watching it in English, but what is that supposed to say? The original is English. 8. The part where he is inviting her up. What else should he have done, instead of invite her up? The call was still going to come, and he didn't know when that would be. He could have left her outside, but that's, in my opinion, worse than invite her up. He also didn't pressure her, he told her, his family is there, would she like to wait with him on the call upstairs for the time being and she agreed. He didn't put her worries aside in a neglectful way, but just tried to make her comfortable and worry less for the time it might still take till the call would come, and he didn't just surprise her with his family, he warned her beforehand. 9. The face is also a bit taken without further context. Perhaps it was, how you said, him realizing now there is an end to it. Actually, though, that look on his face was there as the call started and was the same one Ember had. It was worry about what Gale would say and that kept on, because she sounded unhappy first about the glass. His expression immediately changed after the phone called ended, and he was happy with Ember, that they had made it. I actually can relate to this, because that's how I feel after a good phone call. 10. There is context missing towards him coming along her, when she leaves. For some reason, she sees an opportunity that was given to her as something bad, while talking about it in a good way and instead of explaining why she feels that way, she tries to run from the argument and from her emotions, and he wanted to get behind it. That led to her actually saying out loud, that she realizes now, that she doesn't want to work in the shop. It's been something that was expected from her, or that's how she felt. Her father always wanted her to keep up the work in the shop, and she never questioned it, since it seemed like the only option to her, but it's not. She's seen it. 11. I would agree with your point with: it's Embers flame and so on, but actually, he did use his own fire. He did use her light, but it was prism heat that was used. He could have used any light, hers was close and made much more sense, since it was about them. 12. Love bombing. Again, not much proof. The movie isn't able to be long enough to actually show them outside when they meet up. The reason we don't see him work, the reason we see Ember work more, is because the main focus is on her and then what's between her and Wade. Also, that's how dates work, you meet up, and you try to see if you work with each other and that includes giving the other attention and love. 13. If he were the gaslighting type of guy, he would have done that all along, he left her to her opinions and the way he flipped there, wasn't him insulting her, it's him frustrated, that she is so easy to throw anything away that is good for her, because she is scared to disappoint her dad. He is also not gaslighting her into quitting, especially not "the entire movie". It was her who confessed that she doesn't even want to work there for the rest of her life. I would get if you were to say, he is gaslighting her into working on the job his mom suggested, but not even that is the truth. He is not wanting her to quit because it what was suggested, but because it's what she wants to do. 14. The passive aggressiveness is confusing. 15. The glass cracking could be Wade, or it's more of a symbol of her emotions getting fragile and then they burst. but idk

When the writing is so mid people start making a theory out of it💀 Jokes aside, this theory actually makes sense. Idk if it’s because I just didn’t like Wade from the start or nah, but either way it’s pretty good, so props to you!

Even while watching the movie I was questioning why Wayne wasn’t doing his job and the entire interruption of the ceromony. This theory makes sm sense.

Another thing that made me feel weird about wade was him walking back to his office, completely chill and unbothered with the fact that he’s about to put a family business out despite balling his eyes out over it a few minutes ago

I thought the love ritual was suspicious due to the fact that Wade uses Ember’s flame.

I used to think that this guy looked so much like my boyfriend and I looked so much like amber.... We broke up

6:18 *Sweet Home Alabama intensifies* But I don’t want this to ruin my impression of Wade lmao. Good theory, though.

Wade cry because of what happened to his father and the first thing he sees is a photo of a happy family

The only nitpick with your theory I have is that matchmaking scene. If the similar dna can cause the flames to loop, then there is a high chance that embers mother was actually finding incest relationships. I would rather think it was emotional, because the other option is really unsettling.

After I watched this movie, I was like ”Oh my gosh, what a fantastic true love story, they’re ment to date”, and when I saw the title of the video I was like ”What the heck?!”, but after I watched this… Wade, you jerk.

Can you please do a theory on why Sandy Cheeks wear fake skin and why people called her naked in someone’s in the kitchen with sandy

Fun fact: Wade's mom was originally meant to be the villain

I'm glad I'm not the only one who seen some of this but 70% what you said also blew my mind lol, Also keep up the great work bro, absolutely loving your content!!!

YESSSSSS finally someone else sees it!!! i hated him so much making her choose between her childhood dream and him, like yeah, she's good at glass making but she didn't show interest in it ONCE before she met wade, and then all of a sudden he's pushing glass making down her throat? like he deadass starts manipulating her saying: i know what's best for you and this is what you want, let me save you and take you with my people. He gave white saviour complex the whole movieee

I was rewatching the movie with this in mind, and I just noticed that Wade knows Ember's name before she tells him? Like when you pointed out how she didn't get to properly plead her case, Wade makes her burst by saying "But the main thing is that if her father can’t retire, it will all be Ember’s f-“ WHICH I looked all over the movie, but there isn't really a sign for him to have picked up her name beforehand? I doubt he would've been to firetown before, and this only supports the theory that this wasn't a truly 'accidental' meeting. It seemed he knew exactly what to do. Ember didn't know his name, but he did. Maybe Wade's known about Ember long before the events of the movie.. and it's sort of disturbing to thing about. Manipulation, and possibly stalking.

Yeah idk, this relationship was sweet to me, yet you got a point I mean i dont think that he planned this but he behaves awful towards her

Ok, but Wade died for her. He evaporated himself not knowing that he would survive it. I feel like a true manipulator would've dipped once the situation was no longer in their own best interest, but Wade stayed with her till the end, because he (and I can't stress this enough) literally DIED (albeit temporarily) to save her and her family airlume

the ticket wasnt the pipes it was embers dad LITTERALLY MADE THE SHOP WITHOUT ANY PERMISSION he had every reason too write the letter

“Which allowed him to escape through her pipes” 💀

Can you look more into the episode of peppa pig when they went to the zoo? It’s like the peppa pig universe has some sort of society where theres division between the animals.

Like the idea that it started as manipulation, but also he thought he would die for good at the end. I don’t think he planned that OR the glass breaking. I’m pretty sure he planned up until Ember’s “coronation,” then went from there.

Theu finally make a twist villian we wouldve liked, marketed in a way that wouldve kept the surprise, and NO TWISTS 😭😭😭😭

Bro just dropped the hardest fucking theory ever, On the movie with sentient elements.

5:33 I believe this is mostly the classic gag of looking sad at first but then actually being happy

Disney:*makes a movie that isn't dark* Fans:"Fine. I'll do it myself." Jokes aside it'd be cool to see some sort of plot based around this

I watched this movie 74 times and never really thought of this, although I did question some things like Wade not letting Ember really give her case, or Wade having 2 tickets for an un-explained reason, though my best explanation for that is just he got the tickets to go with someone, maybe family, or a friend, but then they cancelled, and although one could argue he could've just given the ticket to Gale, I don't think that makes much sense because we don't know when Gale bought her ticket, so I think using Wade randomly having 2 tickets as evidence is a bit of a stretch but I could see how that could definitely support your argument, and there is a lot of other, better evidence in this video than "Oh, he has 2 tickets." Another argument I think could be explained away is Wade giving the shop a ticket. Wade says during the crying scene that he needs this job and he's lost so many, so he could be trying to do his job well so he can keep it, there's never any context for the state of his job.

i don’t think this theory works if you put it into context, the last thing for example is she says she loves him then boom he comes back and he’s perfectly fine, he didn’t know he could just come back, he came back bc what she was saying was making him cry, at this point the whole family knows he has to cry to come back so a whole lot is said to make him keep crying so he keeps dripping from the walls, he wasn’t just boom bang back like it was his own choice

Nah, in the movie they make it clear that Wade comes from a privileged rich family thats full of love and openess of expression so his view of the world its very different from Amber's. He is very vulnerable from their first meeting and is not ashamed of anything he feels and wants so he goes after it and constantly pushes her to do the same, with his mistake being that he didnt take into account that her culture and life and family is so different from him. Its comes off as selfish because he is ignorant and too much of a optimist dreamer. He is not exactly manipulative, just a privileged man in his own bubble.But he learns and listens and learns even more for her eventually.

4:04 wait is the whole crew waterfolk? Are they not like able to just squeeze out of the gap in the cement? We know that all the elements can shape shift so how are they stuck?

While I’m not sure about this theory, there is a lot of evidence that does work for it overall. It does not fully explain Wade being willing to die for Amber unless you argue he knew he would just evaporate ahead of time.

Dude i am genuinely terrified of wade. (agua)

this makes me realise how badly ive been manipulated HELP

Take it from me...water can be very manipulative 😒

Man, the disney writers really screwed it up this time...

This.... is a fantastic theory and i completely bought it having never thought of it before

Good theory to make up for terrible writing! Love stuff like this

You're on to something 😅

It makes me wonder. With this level of detail it just seems so intentional by the writers. Like you said they almost wrote the theory for you. But what is this movie trying to say? The manipulative parts, while obvious when you highlight it, were too obscured for young, inexperienced audiences to pick up on and it was displayed as a happy ending love story. So young people might just end up thinking that this is what a healthy relationship looks like.

Bro….mabey he was stalking her through the pipes but her temper bursted the pipes he was stalking in her….

Wait we are missing like a ton of dialogue here Wade express that he has to write a ticket bc it's not the first time he sucks at a job and he really needs to do his job Wade also really pleaded for amber and her cause Bc it's actually amber's anger that made her so unfriendly And why he wrote the ticket and had to flee Having to track the water leak is just because the tickets in this world is valid It isn't legal If you wanna fix it discreetly and forget about illegal stuff You have to get your hands dirty He was love struck It's clicher he is just trying to get the girl he got intrigue by lol two flames with the same dna? wtf is this~ So what sisters are gonna have true love smoke ??? Amber could disappoint someone else by favouring making someone else happy(her dad) Wade helping to save the shop meant if amber really wanted to be in the shop, her dad would unban Wade and they would also be fine So it's really not about that lol Stuff is rushed but not manipulated by wade

I bet more people watched this video than the actual movie

this video was crazy to watch and im seeing it so clearly now great theory dude

Bro thinks disney is this smart💀

I'm not much of a critical thinker, but thanks for the free movie summary

this new matpat is ember!

Am I the only one completely confused on how these points were made?? Did we watch the same Pixar film?!?!

wade is like so ew he literally has a savior complex

Saying “You tried your best” is manipulation apparently

All is fair in love and war

it honestly makes so much sense tbh

oh, that explains why there was something about him that bugged me the whole , movie. It does makes me recal my EX to be honest. Of course the most emotional person, would know all about how to make others feel the way they want.

I’m genuinely surprised and a bit scared by how well this theory works

Bro, I literally thought the same thing about Wade. In the Amber family party, I though wow this dude is really egoistic. You have to ruin all the relationships Amber has for your stupid love. And before in the scene out of the train, Wade said Amber was a coward wow that was backstabbing.

U R AN GENIUS AND A DETECTIVE

You're not overthinking. You're right.

AGUA, Also I never realized that until I watched this- Wowers 🤠

I dub this a better name, Yandere Wade theory. It make the logistics of the true love scene irrelevant, as Wade falling in love with her would be the thing kicking off all this, so the candles would show them in love with each other either way.

Is bro pissing on ember in the thimbnail 💀

Seems like creators of this movie either wrote from their experience (unaware of true implications), or revealed their true manipulative nature without even acknowledging it. Either way, the state of modern western culture is quite sad.

4:24 IM SORRY BUT AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT OF MOIST CRITIKAL AT THIS MOMENT LMAO

i just thought after clicking on this "wade vs spongebob"

this theory makes no sense in my mind, i dont understand how you can make such an innocent guy sus and a playboy

OR just hear me out here, it had to happen so the movie happens andthey really are a good guy and anything pointing otherwise is an error+

Very interesting theory. Literally the only thing that makes it crumble is the simple and obvious fact that the creator of the film literally said it's based on him and his wife's love story. Edit: I should probably say I don't mean this as a disd. I say it's obvious but it's obvious to those who know. But in case nobody else out there even knows this, but this is literally based on the original creators experience with his wife and his parents. The original creator, which is a man, basically wrote Ember and put a little bit of himself within it while also wanting to make this creative stories based on elements. Meaning his wife with a basically been in water dudes place. I'm already forgetting this name. I will say that this feels like the equivalent of a film theory from matpat. Again I don't need this as a diss. The theory was an absolute flop or just straight up wrong. Because I'm not going to lie, I can just enjoy a good theory even though I know there's no merit to it. But, just knowing why it was created I know for a fact there's no merit to this.

I thought I was crazy for absolutely HATING Wade by the end of the movie, I just had this gut feeling that something was wrong. I'm so glad someone else gets it.

You know, I think this theory actually improves the movie. The "racism against immigrants" narrative fell really flat for me since, unlike in real life, if an immigrant touches me, I don't have a chance of suddenly bursting into flames or having my house burn down. These are physical things that are literally a part of them that are dangerous for others and they can't change them.

7:27 BRO THIS BROKE IT FOR ME, yes I have been agreeing with you the whole video, but THIS PART MADE ME SO CONVINCED. Either Wade was written by a manipulative person, or he just IS manipulative. Like wow.. Tbh makes me wanna fully watch the movie.

Thank you! It felt weird that he had two tickets!

Of course the most emotional person, would know all about how to make others feel the way they want.

i knew i felt something off about this movie. thank you for pointing it out lol. though i wished they'd show more of the world in the movie, but it was ok anyway.

The rich water Boy could of pay for it to be fixed but ig he didn't want to do that

I’ve been waiting for someone to make a video about this. The first (and only time) I ever watched this movie in it’s entirety, I always found it weird that Wade stopped at nothing to get that city inspection paper submitted despite Ember chasing him all across the city. He didn’t at one point think “huh this girl seems really stressed about me doing this. Maybe I should ask her what’s wrong before a close down the place she works at.” And then he has a full character shift saying he’ll stop at nothing to NOT get her shop closed as if he wasn’t the instigator of the entire movie. Their meeting could’ve been so different and less problematic

i love these theories

The manipulation is crazy here 😭

Wats crazy is that when ember and wade first met in the basement they never introduce themselves so it doesn't make sense on how wade knows embers name when he was confronting that tree guy about her issues

I think the theory falls because of one thing: all people from the fire district would literally die if they didn't lock things up. Waide was just doing his jobs, and after he did, he regreeted by seeing ember reaction. He was just blinded on doing his job (he said that he never managed to keep one for long). Without the constroction team help, there was literally no way to stop the problem besides locking things up

Wade definitely gives me Ted Mosbey vibes.